SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING UNITED STATES TROOPS IN EUROPE.

SEC. 1041. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING UNITED STATES TROOPS IN EUROPE. It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the United States has a strong interest in continuing and strengthening the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to preserve world peace and security and to aid in the transition to a Europe that is whole and free; (2) the United States should work with its NATO allies to adapt NATO to better respond to the changing world situation, which includes— (A) the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact as a military and political alliance; (B) the reduction in the threat of attack on western Europe posed by the Soviet Union; (C) the reduction in the amount of financial resources that the United States is able to devote to defense spending; and (D) the improved ability of other member nations of NATO to carry a greater share of the common NATO defense burden; (3) barring unforeseen developments which result in a substantial increase in the threat to the national security of the United States, the Armed Forces should plan for an end strength level of members of the Armed Forces assigned to permanent duty ashore in European member nations of NATO that should not exceed approximately 100,000 members by the end of fiscal year 1995; and (4) a principal function of the members so assigned should be to facilitate the rapid and large-scale reception of reinforcing United States troops in the event of a military necessity.