[FreedomPoster]

>>I would like to see us unass Germany and move our forward-deployed troops to Bosnia or Hungary.

Given that most serious Army movements are accomplished via 1) train to 2) a port, I fail to see how Hungary would be a very good idea as a place to base U.S. Army heavy forces. Bosnia is only slightly better, has one small port. Forward-deploying in these places would *not* "put us far closer to our potential areas of future conflicts, in the Middle East."

[Voice in your head]

Bosnia and Hungary are not equipped with lots of ports, but they are very close to Croatian ports. There is a lot of military traffic that passes back and forth from Bosnia to Hungary, through Croatia. Croatia would be a good candidate, as well.

See here:
http://img.infoplease.com/images/mcroatia.gif

I would say Turkey, but they showed their usefulness in OIF.