Will Germany's Army Ever Be Ready for Battle?

[Skybird]

No conscripts are ordered to international oversea missions, just voluntary professionals go there. And these hardly are whining about sleeping bags. Their complaints are more substantial and relevant. For example the lack of airtransport capacity of German troops in Afghanistan, lacking mine protection in early vehicles that went to Afghanistan, idiotic ROEs etc.

However, since months the Germans are engaged in hours-long firefights in the north now, almost every day. The holiday in the North is over, and the enemy no longer targets the Germans indirectly only, but engages them openly, face to face, and no longer with roadside bombs only, but infantry assaults and long firefights. And it seems the troops on location have learned that they are fighting in a real war. A message that people and politicians at home still have not learned, unfortunately. While the troops are almost completely absorbed by defending themselves and fighting, politicians still give it an appearance as if they are spending all their time with building schools and drilling wells. But that was the past. the present is something very different.

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