Germany announced its first stand-alone military strategy on Tuesday, intending to become the strongest “conventional army in Europe” by 2039. Titled “Verantwortung für Europa,” or “Responsibility for Europe,

Mark Jones, who had spent more than two decades working on NATO and Europe policy as both a soldier and a civil servant, was viewed as being out of step with the administration’s jaundiced view of the alliance.

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

German soldiers participate in a ceremonial roll call on May 22 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Germany, which leads a multinational NATO task force in Lithuania, is in the process of deploying a 5,000-strong brigade to Lithuania on a permanent basis. NATO is ...

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, examines whether the country can achieve its goals—and what stands in its way

Twenty-five years after the launch of the euro, the European Union faces a serious predicament, with the two largest economies — Germany and France — struggling to improve their competitiveness with coalition governments are under pressure. This is ...

When the Pentagon confirmed plans to pull roughly 5,000 troops from Germany, Boris Pistorius did not flinch. Germany’s defense minister called the move “foreseeable” and immediately pivoted to a blunter message for European allies: stop mourning the American security blanket and start replacing it.

European officials have been working on ways to convince Donald Trump ⁠to ⁠keep the United States in NATO despite severe tensions over the ⁠Iran war. But his abrupt move to cut U.S. forces in Germany is the latest sign that such efforts have their limits and are far ​from certain to succeed.