As an "Ungediente" - a civilian without prior military service - his rifle training is part of a Bundeswehr programme designed to prepare Germans to support the army. The programme, launched in ...

It has been described as “one of the most historic paradigm shifts in Germany’s post-war history”. Friedrich Merz, the incoming German ... from a Leopard 2 tank at the training ground ...

While German industry gears up to transform the army, the chancellor-in-waiting is also making a pitch to return German ...

BRUECK, Germany (Reuters) - Holding a rifle at a training ... war in Ukraine has prompted a change in public attitudes towards the armed forces, culminating this week in the announcement by the ...

THERE are many lessons to be learnt in all fields of military art from a study of the conduct of the Second World War, but many of these will be out of date and misleading in ten years time.