A Permanent Armored Brigade in Poland?

Poland wants a new, permanent U.S. base in Poland. And it’s a great opportunity to checkmate Russia.

“U.S. engagement in Poland’s security is not shrinking. On the contrary, it could grow even larger,” Poland’s Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz posted on X on June 3. He said he had conveyed to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “an official proposal to establish a new, permanent base in Poland.”

With the bold proposal for a new American base in Poland, the Trump Administration now has a window of opportunity to support the best U.S. ally in Central Europe, and strengthen NATO conventional deterrence.

NATO’s July summit in Ankara, Turkey is the moment to act. At the summit will be U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki. More than 10,000 U.S. troops are already in Poland, but there’s opportunity for more. At their White House meeting on Sep. 3, 2025, Trump promised President Nawrocki more American forces in Poland if he wanted them. “We’ll be staying in Poland,” Trump said. “We’re very much aligned with Poland. We’ll put more there if they want.”

A decision to base an American armored brigade combat team in Poland permanently would go far to cement the U.S.-Poland military alliance.