Back to the Future? Why Germany is Building Up Its Military
SputnikNews.com
15.05.2016
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, Germany has enlisted additional soldiers in its army. The era of disarmament in Berlin seems to be over, Austrian newspaper Die Presse wrote.
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the number of soldiers in the German army is expected to increase by about 14,300 servicemen and 4,400 thousand employees until 2023, the newspaper reported.
On Tuesday, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen publicly abolished the upper limit of 185,000 soldiers introduced in 2011.
“Today it is necessary,” the minister said, cited by the newspaper.
Since the Day of the German reunification in 1990, the number of Bundeswehr soldiers decreased from 585,000 to 185,000. The large-scale reduction of armed forces has been accelerated by the financial crisis and subsequent austerity prescriptions as well as the “peaceful” spirit of the time, the newspaper wrote.
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