{"id":423138,"date":"2025-09-14T07:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/423138\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T07:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:33:20","slug":"germanys-army-to-double-in-size-commander-gives-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/423138\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s army to double in size, commander gives details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gt-block\"><strong>&#8220;The German army must add 100,000 active troops to its existing 62,000 troops to meet new NATO objectives aimed at increasing readiness for the growing threat of Russian aggression,&#8221; its commander has declared.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is imperative that the army becomes sufficiently war-ready by 2029 and offers the capabilities that Germany promised NATO by 2035,&#8221; said Army Chief Alfons Mais.<\/p>\n<p>He said achieving these goals was impossible with currently approved personnel levels, which also include 37,000 inactive troops.<\/p>\n<p>It is known that Germany has already begun to increase its commitments to allies in Eastern Europe, not least with the creation of a German brigade in Lithuania, which will number about 5,000 troops, and a deployment of naval patrols in the Baltic to combat underwater sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>Mais called for an increase of about 45,000 active troops by 2029 &#8211; the year the US-led alliance has said it expects Russia to be capable of a large-scale attack on Western allies.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Moscow has consistently denied any intention to wage war against NATO or its members.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, to meet NATO objectives agreed at a summit in June and to build reserves for a war of the kind Russia is waging in Ukraine, Mais projected a requirement for 45,000 more active troops by 2035.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">He also called for about 10,000 additional troops to strengthen territorial defenses.<strong> \/Telegraph\/<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The German army must add 100,000 active troops to its existing 62,000 troops to meet new NATO objectives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,2821,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-423138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-nato","12":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115201494476273516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}