Berlin has invested hundreds of billions of euros to rearm since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and aims to play a major role within the North Atlantic Alliance, particularly as the US moves toward isolation.
Berlin has invested hundreds of billions of euros to rearm since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and aims to play a major role within the North Atlantic Alliance, particularly as the US moves toward isolation.
German military procurement bureaucracy could be used to win any war. If we could only figure out a way of implementing it in the enemy’s armed forces.
There has never been and will never be any news on that, it’s a state within the state that has defied any attempts at reforming it for decades. On top of that comes corruption, which runs deep in the business. A lot of logistics has been outsourced, maintenance is rarely done in house these days. This might or might not be a result of a certain Ursula von der Leyen, now president of the EU commission, unleashing a bunch of McKinsey consultants (among them a child of hers, did I mention corruption, by the way?) on the armed forces during her tenure as minister of defence.
Spending is always a bad measurement for capability, especially in an environment driven by corruption and nepotism.
… if that’s true … maybe the Germans military procurement should get trained on infiltration and Russian language …