ROSTOCK, Germany — Germany has committed billions to beefing up its military's equipment after years of neglect. Now it's trying to persuade more people to join up and serve. More than 3½ years after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German Defense Minister Pistorius says the Bundeswehr needs a strategy in case of attackIMAGO ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Flag of Germany. Stock photo: AFP via Getty Images Bundeswehr Inspector General Carsten Breuer believes that the German ...

On June 6, 2023, leadership from the 200th Military Police Command stood shoulder to shoulder with military police leadership from multiple countries in Hannover, Germany to celebrate “10 Years of ...

At the end of January, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius (Social Democratic Party, SPD) stated in several interviews that Germany had to prepare for a direct war with the nuclear power Russia.

The Bundeswehr will move away from rigid hardware quotas − the number of tanks, aircraft or ships − toward a flexible, effects-based planning model.

Both ruling parties struck a conciliatory tone in parliament after a divided week on the issue. Germany aims to double the Bundeswehr's number of servicemen and women in a decade, how is entirely ...

For several days, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius struggled to explain himself. A provision in the new Military Service Act, which took effect on January 1, appeared to require men between the ...

KOLN, Germany – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Luftwaffen Kaserne in Koln-Wahn Oct. 23, to observe a Bundeswehr and U.S. Army demonstration to showcase how NATO capabilities would set the ...

Key point : Germany’s military has been vastly underfunded. The modern German armed forces, or Bundeswehr, were created just ten years after the end of World War II. Cold war tensions and the presence ...