Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s ...

Germany is actively preparing for the possibility of war with Russia, developing a comprehensive 1,200-page military plan, ...

Germany has a complicated relationship with its military. Two world wars when the country was on the wrong side of history have taught Germans to be cautious about the pitfalls of a big army. But with ...

Eighty years after the unprecedented crimes of the Wehrmacht and Hitlerite fascism, the ruling class is once again pursuing a ...

-This historic shift, supercharged by Chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition, aims to create the "strongest conventional military in Europe." -A key sign of this new assertiveness is the first-ever ...

BERLIN — Six weeks into his current term in office, President Trump was asked by a reporter about countries, like Germany, that for decades had not spent 2% of their GDPs on defense — despite, like ...

Lotteries promise much but few people ever win. Germany’s governing coalition had been planning to unveil a new conscription law this week that would have reintroduced military service by lottery. But ...

ROSTOCK, Germany (AP) — Germany has committed billions to beefing up its military’s equipment after years of neglect. Now it’s trying to persuade more people to join up and serve. Today in History: ...

Young German men are protesting against voluntary - perhaps compulsory - conscription. They don't believe in war, even as ...

Germany’s new military space strategy endorses long-term development of reusable spaceplanes, including this concept included in the report, among other technologies. Credit: German Ministry of ...