When Boris Pistorius stood before the Bundestag in late spring 2026 and called for a Bundeswehr of 260,000 soldiers, he was ...

A long-awaited overhaul Reform of Germany's defense procurement system has been debated for decades. The Bundeswehr's procurement authority, ...

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

It is a scene he might once have imagined only in America, beams the general, demonstrating the new respect the Bundeswehr enjoys among Germans. The story is telling in a second way. Mr Breuer’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recruits from the Germany's Logistics Battalion 171 practice pitching tents at the Burg training area. Germany's armed forces plan ...

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and the federal government are driving forward the transformation of Germany into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chancellor-hopeful Friedrich Merz from the conservative CDU has vowed to invest 'whatever it takes' into Germany's defenseBernd ...

Bundeswehr Inspector General Carsten Breuer believes that the German military should be rearmed by 2029, as this is the time when Russia will be able to attack a NATO country. Source: Breuer in an ...

Interest in the Bundeswehr as an employer is much greater than most expect: the Bundeswehr received 51,200 applications according to its own information for military service last year. That was 19 ...

BERLIN – For three decades after the Cold War ended, Germany did what most Western democracies did with their armies: it ...