Feith: No U.S. Bases to be Built in Eastern Europe

By John Liang / June 23, 2004 at 5:00 AM
The United States does not plan to build any permanent military bases in eastern Europe, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith told House lawmakers today. The Pentagon does "have thoughts," however, "on how we want to create facilities so that we can work more closely with the new NATO allies, and be able to incorporate them into our work, be able to integrate them more effectively into the NATO alliance, be able to also take advantage of their...

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