German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on Wednesday presented a new national military strategy, as Berlin responds to the rising threat from Moscow.<\/p>\n
The Bundeswehr, Germany’s military, is undergoing a programme of rearmament in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while the country reintroduced voluntary military service in January in an effort to boost troop numbers.<\/p>\n
Pistorius’s defence plan includes Germany’s first military strategy and an analysis of the Bundeswehr’s capabilities, setting out the organization, structure and size of the armed forces.<\/p>\n
While details are classified, Pistorius said the plans include “developing the Bundeswehr into the strongest conventional army in Europe.”<\/p>\n
The Defence Ministry in Berlin regards Russia as the main threat facing Germany.<\/p>\n
“With its rearmament, it is preparing for a military confrontation with NATO and sees the use of military force as a legitimate instrument for asserting its interests,” Pistorius said.<\/p>\n
NATO is aiming to boost its forces to 460,000 soldiers to counter Russian aggression.<\/p>\n
Berlin’s strategy sets out the importance of long-range precision weapons and air defence systems, but also the development of technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and robotics.<\/p>\n
“In the short term, we are increasing our defence and endurance capabilities; in the medium term, we are aiming for a significant, comprehensive increase in capabilities; and in the long term, we will establish technological superiority,” Pistorius explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on Wednesday presented a new national military strategy, as Berlin responds to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[419,5,6445,6446,6447],"class_list":{"0":"post-6572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-boris-pistorius","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-military-strategy","11":"tag-national-military-strategy","12":"tag-strategy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}