German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius delivers a speech during a military ceremony to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the German armed forces Bundeswehr, on November 12, 2025 in front of the ...

BERLIN — German lawmakers on Friday approved the government’s plan to attract more military recruits as the country tries to boost the ranks of its armed forces in the face of rising concern about the ...

All 18-year-old men to be screened for suitability for armed forces, but proposal falls short of conscription The German parliament has rubberstamped a new model for military service that aims to ...

Ammunition belonging to the German Armed Forces has been stolen from a civilian truck parked overnight in Burg in Saxony-Anhalt, raising serious questions about security procedures for transporting ...

The German Defense Ministry confirmed Tuesday that “a shipment of thousands of rounds of ammunition” bound for the armed forces was stolen from a civilian contractor’s trailer last week. A ...

The German military is setting up rapid response teams to counter acute drone threats, a top German military official said, most recently dispatching these experts to assist in Belgium. “These ...

The German navy has tested a Rheinmetall-MBDA laser weapon demonstrator aboard the frigate Sachsen. (Rheinmetall) BERLIN — The German military has received a demonstrator for a high-energy laser ...

Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. An age-old French nightmare — that of growing German military might — is resurfacing in a new form. Indeed, ...

The text also opened the door to a reintroduction of compulsory enlistment. The Defence Ministry hopes the voluntary six-month scheme will help double the number of trained reservists from the current ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz labelled Russia "the greatest threat to freedom, peace and stability in Europe" and stressed that Germany "must have the largest conventional army on the European side of ...

With its many missions, the U.S. Army is hard-pressed to meet the requirements of the National Defense Strategy at its current authorized end strength. A major part of the problem is that the Army is ...