The U.S. military is planning to remove 700 troops assigned to the 101st Airborne Division from Eastern Europe as the Pentagon focuses on other regions.

The airborne division is part of NATO's eastern flank and is deployed in Germany, Poland and Romania.

Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth is reducing the number of troops in those nations while changing focus to the Indo-Pacific, Latin America and domestic fronts, The New York Times reported.

The drawdown would leave the U.S. military with about 83,000 troops in Europe, including 1,000 in Romania.

"This is not an American withdrawal from Europe or a signal of a lessened commitment to NATO," the U.S. Army Command in Europe said in a prepared statement.

"Our NATO allies are meeting President [Donald] Trump's call to take primary responsibility fo

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