"Under President Trump, there are now more troops in the Middle East than when he took office"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/world/middleeast/us-troops-deployments.html
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt
Oct. 21, 2019
President Trump has repeatedly promised to end what he calls Americas endless wars, fulfilling a promise he made during the campaign.
No wars have ended, though, and more troops have deployed to the Middle East in recent months than have come home. Mr. Trump is not so much ending wars, as he is moving troops from one conflict to another.
Tens of thousands of American troops remain deployed all over the world, some in war zones such as Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and even still Syria. And the United States maintains even more troops overseas in large legacy missions far from the wars following the Sept. 11 attacks, in such allied lands as Germany, South Korea and Japan.
Although deployment numbers fluctuate daily, based on the needs of commanders, shifting missions and the militarys ability to shift large numbers of personnel by transport planes and warships, a rough estimate is that 200,000 troops are deployed overseas today.
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