Author: Christopher F. Schuetze
Published on: 05/12/2025 | 00:00:00

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After 1945, Germany Constrained Its Army. He’s Trying to Revive It. Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. Mr. Pistorius’s supporters said it was the best he could do, given a deep-seated unease about rearming the country that started World War II. The law is the latest in a sequence of moves that were unthinkable less than a decade ago. In March, he helped lead a successful effort to remove limits on military spending from Germany’s Constitution. Opinion polls in Germany show a pervasive fear of sending another generation into war. Domestic politics play a role, too, with parties on the far right and left that are partial to Russia or that favor dialogue with it. Mr. Pistorius has remained Germany’s most popular politician for most of the past three years. Pistorius is Germany’s first defense minister since World War II to serve chancellors from two different parties. Born in 1960, he grew up in Osnabrück, a midsize industrial city in West Germany. He was thrust onto the national stage when he was unexpectedly appointed as defense minister. German hawks say Mr. Pistorius hasn’t gone far enough to counter Russian threats and that the law approved on Friday is ineffective because it doesn’t introduce a compulsory draft. The bill is “yet another example of hesitation and procrastination,” a military historian says. Debate is healthy, not least because it is slowly acclimatizing society to the need for action. She found herself in a Texas detention center instead. Advertisement - a detention centre in Texas.

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