WASHINGTON—President Biden is directing the Pentagon to deploy larger than 3,000 American troops to bolster the protection of European allies in the first vital plod of U.S. forces in Russia’s protection force standoff with Ukraine, U.S. officials said.
Mr. Biden is sending roughly 2,000 troops from Citadel Bragg, N.C., to Poland and Germany this week and repositioning about 1,000 troops that are section of a Germany-primarily based mostly infantry Stryker squadron to Romania, on the North Atlantic Treaty Group’s japanese flank closest to Russia, the officials said.