
Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove on Tuesday handed over his duties as Supreme Allied Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe to Army Gen. Curtis Scaparotti, who will undertake the rebuilding of a credible deterrent combat force on the continent.Breedlove, who started his career as a young airman in the 1970s, when Europe was defined by the Cold War, ended his 40 years of service trying to prevent another existential crisis between the same adversaries.When he took command of…