Before the war had started the US army was a small professional force. When Germany overran Poland within a matter of weeks in 1939, a greater urgency was put on building up the numbers in the Army ...

The Army’s 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, the only U.S. Patriot missile battalion based in Europe, transferred its Patriot missile defense mission in Poland to German forces.

Ministers also discussed ways to prepare European citizens to respond to various threats, from invasions to natural disasters.

A Polish government minister called for a boycott of Tesla Inc. vehicles after billionaire Elon Musk said there was “too much ...