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A spat between the US and Germany has reached new heights, with US President Donald Trump threatening to pull some American troops from the country amid disagreements about the US-led campaign in
Germany has positioned itself to become the "strongest conventional army in Europe" by 2039. Big military investments are fueling such predictions.
A defense overhaul in Germany aims to increase the number of active-duty forces to 260,000 troops by the mid-2030s.
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Germany unveils strategy for becoming Europe's strongest military by 2039
The Bundeswehr will move away from rigid hardware quotas − the number of tanks, aircraft or ships − toward a flexible, effects-based planning model.
The plan is to increase its force over the next decade to nearly 500,000 active duty and reservist soldiers, roughly twice the number it has now.
Germany's armed forces do not plan to award contracts to U.S. data analytics and defence software company Palantir for now, a leading military officer told the
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