Despite Trump's repeated threats to withdraw the United States from NATO, Germany’s top military officer claims relations with American military leaders are as strong as ever, but he also says that the threat from Russia means Germany’s push to strengthen its own armed forces is a race against time.

A defense overhaul in Germany aims to increase the number of active-duty forces to 260,000 troops by the mid-2030s.

September 1, 2025: The German government is once again considering compulsory military service—a draft to address current recruitment shortfalls and anticipated military personnel needs over the next several years (three to five years is the likely ...

The Bundeswehr will move away from rigid hardware quotas − the number of tanks, aircraft or ships − toward a flexible, effects-based planning model.

KLAIPEDA, Lithuania—Germany’s top military officer, Gen. Carsten Breuer, stood astride a map of Lithuania laid out on the floor of a makeshift command post in this port city on the Baltic Sea. A chill rain beat against the windows as Breuer and his ...

'We have high expectations', German military chief tells Reuters Role reversal after years of Western soldiers training Ukrainians Ukrainians to share expertise in artillery, engineering and drones BERLIN, March 11 (Reuters) - Ukrainian military trainers ...

Germany's armed forces do not plan to award contracts to U.S. data analytics and defence software company Palantir for now, a leading military officer told the

BERLIN, Germany – U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Roger Giraud, commander of Medical Readiness Command, Europe and command surgeon for U.S. Army Europe and Africa, was among a group of U.S. Army medical leaders who travelled to Berlin, Germany recently to observe ...

The Bundeswehr, Germany’s armed forces, aims to equip all soldiers with high-performing “Multitarn” camouflage uniforms by 2029. Germany’s Bundeswehr currently has about 280,000 troops in uniform, but as part of the NATO member’s “FASER ...