IT BEGAN AS a minor spat(小争吵), but it soon grew into a row(争吵，争执) with consequences for European security. On April 27th Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor, said that America was being “humiliated(被羞辱的)” by Iran and that it “obviously had no strategy” in the war it had started alongside Israel. True, but rash to say so.(说得没错，但如此直言不讳未免鲁莽。) A peeved(恼怒的) President Donald Trump said he would withdraw some 5,000 American troops stationed in Germany, and perhaps more elsewhere.
起初只是一场小口角，但很快演变成一场影响欧洲安全的争端。4月27日，德国总理弗里德里希·默茨表示，美国正在被伊朗“羞辱”，并且在与以色列共同发起的战争中“显然没有战略”。说得没错，但如此直言不讳未免鲁莽。恼羞成怒的唐纳德·特朗普总统表示，他将撤走驻扎在德国的大约5000名美军，可能还会从其他地方撤回更多部队。
At first glance the numbers seem small when set against(与...比较) the roughly 39,000 Americans stationed in or rotating through(轮换通过) bases in Germany and the 80,000 active-duty(现役的) American troops across Europe. But America also said it would no longer deploy one of its three newest and most potent(强大的，有效的) units.
乍一看，与驻扎或在德国轮换的大约39000名美军以及全欧80000名现役美军相比，这个数字似乎很小。但美国还表示，将不再部署其三个最新、最强大的部队之一。
The Multi-Domain Task Forces (MDTF) is the centrepiece(核心，最重要的部分) of the US Army’s modernisation. It combines rocket units equipped with very long-range cruise missiles and hypersonic(高超音速的) weapons with top-of-the-range computing and communication wizardry(魔法，神奇技术). Speaking to journalists in February, Colonel Jeff Pickler, the commander of the 2nd MDTF, which had been assigned to Germany, said it would use AI tools to be able to identify 1,500 targets every 24 hours, which is far more than could be found using traditional means. “There are not enough people that we could stuff in a headquarters or a command post that will ever be able to fully process all of that.(没有足够的人手可以塞进一个指挥部或指挥所来完全处理所有这些信息。)”
多域特遣部队（MDTF）是美国陆军现代化的核心。它将配备超远程巡航导弹和高超音速武器的火箭部队与顶尖的计算和通信魔法相结合。今年2月，被派往德国的第2 MDTF指挥官杰夫·皮克勒上校向记者表示，该部队将使用人工智能工具，每24小时能够识别1500个目标，这远远超过传统手段所能找到的数量。“没有足够的人手可以塞进一个指挥部或指挥所来完全处理所有这些信息。”