Tag: Germany
Intelligence Rearmament Spreads as States Prepare for Conflict
Sweden is creating an independent civilian foreign intelligence service. Japan is establishing a central intelligence bureau and proposing its first standalone postwar foreign-intelligence agency. Germany is debating powers that could take its foreign intelligence agency beyond gathering information and into sabotage, cyber disruption and, only in a constitutionally declared state…
Azerbaijan Confirms Secret German-Russian Ukraine Talks
Azerbaijan's president has confirmed that former senior German and Russian officials met secretly in Baku this month to weigh ways of ending Russia's war against Ukraine – and said his own government knew nothing about it."Our territory was used for such a meeting without our knowledge," Ilham Aliyev said alongside…
Germany Pushes EU Force to Replace UNIFIL
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has proposed an EU-mandated force for southern Lebanon after the UN peacekeeping mission ends, arguing that Europe should prevent a security vacuum along the border with Israel.“We should examine in the EU whether we can ensure that no security vacuum arises with a European mandate…
Shelter shortfall exposes a gap in Germany’s war readiness
Germany's plan to close a severe civil-defense shortfall runs into an unresolved problem at its core: the federal government has not yet defined what level of attack its shelters should withstand, according to the Financial Times.Germany once had roughly 2,000 public shelters holding 1.6 million people. Today, it has 579,…
Germany Funds 50,000 Ukrainian FPV Strike Drones
Germany is financing the procurement of 50,000 Ukrainian-made Shrike strike drones under a €90 million order, according to Reuters, joining a broader Western shift toward funding weapons produced directly by Ukraine’s defence industry.The contract combines airframes mass-produced by Ukrainian manufacturer SkyFall with guidance software from U.S. defence-technology company Auterion.Germany is…
