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Good personnel and training, very good equipment, but no political ability to use it (even for armed peacekeeping if I'm not mistaken), and virtually no projection capability to send it anywhere on their own. Which is a good thing - it's nice to have boring European history for a while.
their army is pretty good-by any standards-they have other things on their mind right now as east germany was left a polluted mess by the russians and is costing germany a small fortune to clean it up---enjoy the night
It is strictly a maritime defense today. They cut back half the size of the army and practically mothballed the navy when they had to liquify the eastern part of the country back in. Ironic to say, they are not a third the size of France's military today.
There is a single and very important point:
Big countries and big nations which are super-powers just like the USA, Russia, Britain, France or China have very different and much more far longing interests over the whole world.
So these bigger and much more powerful countries have the finincial and monetary ressources to defend all their wide spread interests all over the world with their superior ressources of military and econmic power.
Germany has not any interests outside of Germany. So there will never be any need that we would have to defend any of our non existing interests far away outside of our country.
In Europe we have absence of war and not yet peace at all if I look over to Britain and to the political class in France. But both countries I think are not about to invade ín Germany and other countries in the world which would be hostile to Germany I do not see.
So I can not see any purpose why we would need an army at all.
Supporting the British who hate us, I think can not be expected and the French and British politics are extremely different to the German politics so that I can see not any common opinion between them an us.
With Russia Germany has won a first class new and reliable partner, so that I can not see who wants to do any harm to the Germans, except the colonial masters in Brussels.
With Italy, Spain, Greece or Benelux we live in complete peace and friendship, so that an army would be more than useless.
If Brits and Americans want to have their adventures in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere it is just their decision we have not to comment. But it is obviously not a German problem at all.
What Brits and Americans see as common interest are mostly not the common interests of other countries.
The Anglo-American point of view must not be the same view for other countries.
After the next elections in a few weeks the compulsury service will probably abolished and I think the German Army will reduce again.
This will be a very good step to a complete abolition in the next few years.
A country in the center of Europe does no longer need an army at all and in regard of our special history which is told to us each day a few times we should not engage in foreign affairs outside of our own country.
There are enough other countries who can do much better.
Fortunately it is the smallest and most inferior army in europe.
72 % of the German population are voting for a complete abolition on the spot.
Germany should leave the NATO as soon as possible because it can not be the job of German citizens getting involved like mercennaires for Americans and British in their wars.
Also fortunately over 60 % of all young men are intelligent enough to refuse any kind of military service and prefer a useful and senseful time in some kind of social service.
So I am very glad that the re-education since WW II which was initiated by the Allies was successful.
I think in the next few years Germany will abolish its army completely because Germany does not not need an army and foreign conflicts elsewhere should not touch Germany at all.
If Americans, British and other nations love to do interventions elsewhere they can do it and as a German I wish to all of them many good trips but Germans should strictly keep off any conflict.
Military is nothing but a mere waste of money and useless energy.
I think in regard of the history and given the lessons by the allies after WW II Germnay should retire from any military engagement and abolish its army completely.
The German army never has been seen as an allied army but always as an army of former enemies and so the German soldiers were treated since ever up to now.
So it would have been much better ig Germany would never had formed again a new army after war.
Germany should keep off strictly from any foreign conflicts just in regard of it history which is present daily and prefer to give way to more important military nations like the USA and Britain.
So there is very little support in the German population to the German army and so the German army has been always more tolerated as an evil than being accepted.
In fact Germany does not an army anymore.
Fortunately the German military is one of the smallest and most unimportant in whole Europe because Germany does not need any military.
The military jobs in the world can be done much better by the British and Americans and the Germans should keep strictly off from any military engagement and adventures outside of Germany and so Germany should strictly cut off its support to Britain and America.
They can make their amusing military adventures alone.
What does the term "washout" mean? It was written on multiple days in a journal kept by a soldier during WWI. Must be a military term?
by mgprokosch on July 13th, 2011
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Should civilian agencies such as the C.I.A., F.B.I have control over military operations? Why or why not?
by Michelle J on July 12th, 2011
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Does the Helmet Of Salvation look like one of those WW1 German helmets?
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What weapon(s) can you take apart?
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Be sure- it will stay this like for ever.
Nobody in Germany wants to have any German troops outside of the country.
German troops never will have to do anything outside of Germany and like most Germans I am strictly against any engagement in foreign regions even if other countries ask for it or not.
Problems outside of Germany should never be a German problem and so I am also against the engagement in Afghanistan as well as the stupid maritime engagement against some pirates in Africa.
There are enough nations who love to have big armies and navies and who love to engage all over the world and therefore can make it better.
by Frederik on August 16th, 2009
If the US had taken that attitude before Pearl Harbor... oops, we did. It gave bad guys like the Axis powers free reign to come close to winning the war. Problems outside Germany won't be German problems until suddenly they are. There are still lots of bad guys in the world. Not that I'm saying the US is very intelligent at foreign policy very often.
by Amorphous Blob on August 16th, 2009
But first of all the bad guys have quite different and more important targets as Germany which is really very unimportant in regard to the rest of the world.
The big risks have quite different and much more important nations in the world.
Germany is too unimportant in the whole world that anybody would chose jusyt Germany as a target.
by Frederik on August 16th, 2009
But shouldn't it do its part to help defend common interests? The alternative is appeasement, which didn't work in the late 1930s.
by Amorphous Blob on August 17th, 2009
Germany has to do nothing at all. I can see not any common interests.
Germany has to look for its own problems and the problems of other countries are never our problems.
What other countries think about us, we know meanwhile very well and so most of us do not care at all what people in other countries might think or not.
Germany has only to look straight on its own interests and the interests of other countries are never our business.
We should keep off getting mixed into any foreign affairs and let all the other bigger nations do as they like or not.
As I said already that Germany being a quite small and quite unimportant political power in the world theatre, nobody will need our help nor our advice.
Germany is smaller than Texas so that you see how unimportant and small our country is.
We have nothing to defend for ourselves because nobody in the world wants to attack us. We are not even a target of Al Kaida.
How other countries deal with that is their own problem.
by Frederik on August 17th, 2009