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Trump Administration Cancels Missile Deployment in Germany and Announces Partial Troop Withdrawal
The Trump administration has moved to withdraw thousands of U.S. troops from Germany and shelved a plan to deploy Tomahawk and SM-6 missiles there. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius stated this creates a capability gap that Berlin must address. Officials outlined efforts to modernize missiles and develop European alternatives.
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U.S. troops from German soil and effectively shelved a Biden-era plan to temporarily deploy Tomahawk cruise missiles and SM-6 missiles in Germany, Defense News reported. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, speaking on Monday in Munster, Germany, after a major Bundeswehr combined-arms exercise, said the reported decision meant Germany would be left with a capability gap.
U.S. and German leaders. “That this may now not happen in the way we had assumed tears this capability gap open again.
The Biden administration announced in July 2024 that it would temporarily station a Multi-Domain Task Force in Germany equipped with the Typhon ground-launched system, which can fire Tomahawk cruise missiles and SM-6 interceptors. U.S. troops from Germany, with President Donald Trump suggesting the actual figure could be higher.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius sat on a GTK Boxer vehicle during a demonstration of capabilities by the German army on May 4, 2026, near Munster, Germany. At the government’s regular press conference on Monday in Berlin, Defense Ministry state secretary Kornelius Müller laid out Berlin’s three-pronged response to fielding a long-range missile capability.
The first thrust of Berlin’s response involves modernizing existing Taurus cruise missile stocks and accelerating development of the Taurus Neo successor.
The Taurus Neo successor program was approved by the Bundestag’s budget committee in late 2025. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last July.
