The 2011 German Defence Policy Guidelines state that “a direct territorial threat to Germany involving conventional military means remains an unlikely event”. Though experts may still disagree on the likelihood of the threat, given recent events in Ukraine, there should be consensus about necessity to consider it as a real rather than a hypothetical factor in national defense planning. Germany, due to its geographic location, should even more so approach this issue from practical rather than theoretical perspective. …read more
Source: Atlantic Community