The special fund of €100 billion is a statement and symbolic number for the will of German government to transfer Bundeswehr into a capable and empowered armed force again. After more than a decade of cost-cutting, which was named focus on deployment, capability for national and alliance defence is at stake. Shortage within Bundeswehr starts…
NATO’s strategic concept, which has been resolved in Madrid, focuses on collective defence and regional responsibility. With this it heralds a shift of paradigm. Rightfully so, says General (ret.) Jörg Vollmer, Strategic Advisor for the BSC and Behörden Spiegel. In this shift the European section of NATO needs significantly increase it’s contribution to European Defence…
In the event of war, Germany makes up an important transit country. The necessary competences and forces for this, need to be carried by society as a whole. Lieutenant General Martin Schelleis, Chief of the German Joint Support and Enabling Service, emphasizes the current tasks for the German Joint Support and Enabling Service on the…