A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times – An Instant New York Times Bestseller: A Pentagon Insider's Tumultuous Years Under President Trump

by Mark T. Esper

Despite the need, the Obama administration deactivated V Corps (commonly known as Fifth Corps) in Germany in 2013, about eighteen months after announcing the withdrawal of two brigades and seven thousand soldiers from Europe. A year later, Russia annexed Crimea and occupied eastern Ukraine.

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