
The United States is not at war with Russia, but the Army is set to receive an infusion of wartime funding to beef up its presence and upgrade its equipment in Europe to bolster NATO and deter Moscow from aggression eastward.The Pentagon recently announced $3.4 billion to pay for an expansion of the European Reassurance Initiative. Nearly all of that–$2.8 billion–-will be deposited in the Army’s overseas contingency operations (OCO) account for use in Europe.The Army’s OCO request for fiscal…