{"id":74863,"date":"2026-05-05T03:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74863\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T03:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:53:13","slug":"berlin-faces-missile-gap-after-trumps-troop-cuts-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74863\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin faces missile gap after Trump\u2019s troop cuts \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nico Lange, founder and director of the Institute for Risk Analysis and International Security, said the planned deployment was meant to address a long-standing imbalance in Europe\u2019s deterrence posture. <\/p>\n

The Iskanders based in Kaliningrad can reach “large parts of NATO territory, including Germany,” he said. The response was supposed to be a U.S. force equipped with Typhon missile launchers firing both Tomahawks and modified Navy SM-6 missiles.<\/p>\n

Europe has no immediate replacement for the Tomahawks.<\/p>\n

\"\"A Russian Iskander-E missile launcher is on display at the International Military Technical Forum ‘Army 2022’ in August 2022, Moscow. | Contributor\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

“This was about closing a deterrence gap,” Lange said. Without such capabilities, he warned, Germany remains vulnerable to pressure from Moscow. “Deterrence gaps always mean potential coercion.”<\/p>\n

Germany’s three options<\/p>\n

One immediate option is for Germany to upgrade the Taurus, which currently has a range of about 500 km. Berlin paused production of the missile, but is planning to restart making the Taurus Neo version.<\/p>\n

“We are modernizing our Taurus stockpiles and developing the successor, Taurus Neo,” defense ministry spokesperson Mitko M\u00fcller told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nico Lange, founder and director of the Institute for Risk Analysis and International Security, said the planned deployment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,13032,229,184,4473,235,190,2271,1112,74,8936,1532,238,76,17988,4583,4983],"class_list":{"0":"post-74863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-boris-pistorius","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","13":"tag-friedrich-merz","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-missiles","17":"tag-nato","18":"tag-pete-hegseth","19":"tag-procurement","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-war-in-iran","23":"tag-war-in-ukraine","24":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116519947909937771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}