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Originally Posted by Oberon
Another thing to bear in mind, that although the US has indeed increased its presense in Europe and is looking to increase it a bit further (rumour has it that Lakenheath is looking to get some F-22s which will be nice to see) it's still nowhere near the size of the forces that were deployed in West Germany during the Cold War.
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The problem is that modern Armed Forces are smaller than their cold war equivalents and even if our rearmament goes per plan we still are at a disatvantage in terms of conventional arms balance.
Thus even "small" changes can lead to significant changes in the balance.