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 "slug": "pentagon-cancels-3-12-fa-germany-deployment-long-range-fires-2nd-multi-domain-task-force",
 "title": "Pentagon Cancels 3rd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Deployment to Germany; Long-Range Fires Bridge to 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force Closed",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/pentagon-cancels-3-12-fa-germany-deployment-long-range-fires-2nd-multi-domain-task-force/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/pentagon-cancels-3-12-fa-germany-deployment-long-range-fires-2nd-multi-domain-task-force/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-05-01T20:52:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-29T18:52:18.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWashington, 1 May 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * Pentagon memo dated 1 May cancels deployment of the 3rd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment (Fort Drum, New York) — over 500 soldiers — to Germany as long-range-fires component of the 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force\n * Cancellation closes the European bridge to the SM-6, Tomahawk and Dark Eagle hypersonic systems that the Biden–Scholz July 2024 announcement had committed to rotational deployment from 2026\n * Lands inside the same week as the",
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  "mdf-military-doctrine-force-structure",
  "dez-german-defense-zeitenwende",
  "stk-strike-long-range-fires",
  "transatlantic"
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