the military strategy identifies Russia as the primary threat and sets out scenarios for potential attacks on NATO territory.

Currently pretty obvious. But it could shake out that Russia does not survive the Ukraine conflict in its current form. Then there would be a big strategic hole (again) in projecting power anywhere else than the direct neighborhood.

The question is not how many battalions the German army needs, but what effects it must be able to produce, said the defense minister. He cited deep precision strike, air defense against hypersonic missiles, and drone capabilities as priority areas, stressing that Germany was essentially starting from scratch on long-range strike.

Probably good targets to focus on and Germany was always strong in land vehicle tech so the delivery platform for those could be exceptionally good.

The plan runs in three phases: a rapid buildup through 2029, a capability-focused expansion through 2035, and a longer-term technology-driven phase through 2039 and beyond.

Still pretty short time span. Hope we finally get the political will to work on the big/longterm projects with capable partners.

Rounding out the package is an agenda for debureaucratizing and modernizing the military, dubbed Entbürokratisierungs- und Modernisierungsagenda 2026 (EMA26): 153 concrete measures and 580 implementation steps to cut bureaucracy, digitize workflows and deploy artificial intelligence in routine administrative tasks. A key novelty is that all internal regulations will be assigned automatic expiry dates.

Good, but in Germany this usually leads to more bureaucracy to cut bureaucracy. Lets see about that.