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Two senior American military officers will now lead operations in Europe. Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli takes over US European Command, and becomes the Head of all Allied Forces in Europe as Supreme Commander Europe, including NATO Command. Lt. Gen. Bryan Fenton will lead the Special Forces Command. Cavoli speaks 3 languages Russian, Italian and French, and has served as a foreign area officer. He also served as Director of Russia in the Joint Staff, and has a masters degree in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University. General Eishenhower had this kind of broad experience in the years after World War I that helped him hold the position of Supreme Allied Commander Europe during the war with Nazi Germany. Lt. Gen Byran Fenton is from Seymour, Tennessee. He is currently based at Fort Bragg as head of Joint Operations Command. Both officers will have to be confirmed by Congress and will operate in a new situation with the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq now being replaced by conventional war in Europe and threats to Taiwan, the Indian border with China, and at the Korean peninsula. ...

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This DW.com report on General Cavoli and Headquarters of US Forces Europe, EUCOM command center near Stuttgart, shows how it is changing the war in Ukraine so that there is no more the kind of carpet bombing of Ukraine. That incessant bombing had caused a stream of millions of refugees of women and children across Ukraine and into Poland and Romania. The shelling of Ukraine is down in the east and the south by a factor of six in recent weeks say experts. This may be the biggest change from western aid to Ukraine at this time.