The Americans are on their way

5th March 2010

American soldiers could soon be calling Poland home after President Lech Kaczynski ratified an agreement allowing for the deployment of US troops on Polish soil.

Under the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) up to 100 American servicemen and women, the first foreign forces to be based in Poland since the departure of the Red Army in the early 1990s, will come to Poland next month in order to man a battery of Patriot missiles.

The presence of the missiles have raised concerns in Russia, especially as they will be located about 100 kilometres from the Russian border, although Bogdan Klich, Poland’s defence minister, has said the location has “no strategic or political significance”.
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