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Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Germany was forced to acknowledge the poor state of its military. It's now begun rebuilding its Bundeswehr into a force capable of defending not just Germany but the EU. But it will take time.
Jonas J. Driedger is a German policy analyst at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is also currently a visiting scholar at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and partakes in the Alfa Fellowship Program. He specializes in foreign and security policy with a focus on Germany, the European Union and Russia. His analyses were published in The National