Earlier this year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build Europe’s strongest army – a tall order for a country ...
While front-line states have embraced rapid militarisation, major economies like Spain and Italy are still falling short — ...
Germany’s Leopard 2A8 tank is unlikely to live up to its promises—but its construction is at least a worthwhile investment in the country’s ailing defense industrial base.
When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the Zeitenwende in February 2022 Germany's historic turn toward rapid military ...
NATO member Romania has signed an agreement with Germany’s defense company Rheinmetall to build a gunpowder factory in central Romania, as Europe races to rearm itself in the face of an increasingly p ...
Germany is actively preparing for the possibility of war with Russia, developing a comprehensive 1,200-page military plan, ...
America’s allies fear a peace that is so unjustly one-sided in Russia’s favour that it cannot be accepted by the Ukrainian ...
Germany’s acquisition of Saab’s GlobalEye would be an important step on the long—and expensive—path to rearmament. The security situation in Europe is drastically deteriorating as the Russians press ...
Germany’s Bundeswehr has been severely under-equipped for decades - Alex Kraus/Bloomberg Germany has unveiled a €98bn debt package as it prepares an overhaul of its underfunded armed forces. Berlin’s ...
Germany unveiled the country's first national space security strategy on Wednesday, with Defence Minister Boris Pistorius ...