https://t.co/n4vfB4y5bX Poland is seeking to transform the U.S. military’s largely rotational presence in the country into a permanent deployment with up to 15,000 American troops, a senior Polish official said this week, reported Stars & Stripes. Marcin Przydacz, a minister in Poland’s presidential office, said Warsaw is in discussions with the United States about expanding the American military presence beyond current deployment plans. https://t.co/LFVB39igLI “Our ambition is 15,000, while the minimum version is 11,000,” Przydacz said in an interview with Polish broadcaster RMF FM. “The final decisions are still ahead of us.” S&S notes that while the U.S. military has operated in Poland for years, virtually all of the infrastructure that has been developed over the past decade has been designed to support rotational units on temporary missions. If large units such as Army brigades are to be relocated to Poland, garrisons with support services and amenities for family members also would be required. That means construction of on-post schools, health clinics and family housing units, which would be a multiyear effort if it comes to fruition. The model is the U.S. base structure in Germany, where U.S. troops have been based for decades. “For that, specific agreements, concrete infrastructure and action on the part of both the Pentagon and Poland’s Ministry of National Defense are needed,” Przydacz said. “But the most important direction is, of course, the decision of the White House itself.”