The NATO Secretary General’s Annual Report for 2022 was released on March 21st, providing an overview of the alliance’s achievements and challenges over the past year. The report highlights NATO’s continued efforts to strengthen its collective defence capabilities, enhance its partnerships with other countries and international organizations, and adapt to new security challenges. One of…
Civilian employees in Bundeswehr take significantly more sick leave than soldiers. According to Siemtje Möller, Parliamentary State Secretary, German Ministry of Defence, the average absent time due to illness among civilian employees in 2021 was 19.8 days, while soldiers were on sick leave for 5.5 days in the same year. This picture emerged in the…
We live in times where new opportunity windows are open even for individual persons. In no other era in history one was able to bring individual knowledge to the benefit for mankind in a way we experience today. One example is Ireland’s first satellite programme that is about to be launched. It was developed by…
Since the Berlin Security Conference (BSC) is a major European and transatlantic event, Behörden Spiegel decided to invite prominent personalities from EU, NATO and selected nations to support the congress. These Board Members give advice to the organizer, e.g., with regard to the subject of the programme and national / international speakers. Their portraits on…
Bundeswehr has a few systems left for air defence. For example only two MANTIS, a system for close-range protection, were procured in recent years. But nowadays air defence with more or less stationary systems gains importance, not only for Bundeswehr. MANTIS can cover a 360-degree radius of three kilometres and thus protect not only field…
NATO collects defense expenditure data from Allies and publishes it on a regular basis. The definitions set by NATO may differ from those by member states and the media. Each Ally’s Ministry of Defense reports current and estimated future defense expenditure according to an agreed definition. The amounts represent payments by a national government…
“The first projects are on their way. But by 2022, our soldiers had not received a single cent from the Bundeswehr special fund. Procurement is too slow. The troop’s workbooks have become fuller, but the clothing, ammunition and spare parts depots have not,” states Dr Eva Högl, German Bundestag’s Commissioner for the Armed Forces, in…
Lieutenant General Carsten Breuer will be the next highest-ranking soldier of the Bundeswehr. It is common for the position Chief of Defence to be filled when there is a change of government and it was clearly a sign of appreciation that the actual Chief of Defence, General Eberhard Zorn, survived the last change of government…
“You are to think that the reports that the United States Government had anything to do with the undersea blast against the Nord Stream pipelines is ridiculous. We can discount that out of hand,” says U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price. Price also expresses doubts about the other recent allegations of guilt. ” The anonymous…
Last week, Budget Committee of German Bundestag approved the call-off of soldiers’ radios within the framework agreement on Software Defined Radios (SDR) with Elbit Systems. Following a public call for tenders, German Bundestag had already approved conclusion of the corresponding framework agreement between Elbit consortium, consisting of Elbit Systems Germany, its Israeli parent company and…