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A European recruitment drive won’t fix Germany’s broken military

By Tom Rogan
Published December 28, 2018 5:02pm ET
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A European recruitment drive won’t fix Germany’s broken military
German Bundeswehr soldiers of the 12th Mechanised Infantry Brigade, 122th Infantry Battalion arrive at an airport in Kaunas, Lithuania, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. German troops and tanks are en route to central Lithuania as part of NATO's move to enhance its presence in the alliance's easternmost countries as a deterrent against Russian aggression. The German military said Tuesday that 36 vehicles, including Boxer armored fighting vehicles, were being loaded on a train in Bavaria for the trip to Rukla. | (Mindaugas Kulbis/AP)

Germany must spend much more to boost its military strike capabilities.

Anything else is a distraction designed to deflect attention away from Germany’s woefully inadequate defense investment. And that includes German defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen’s announcement on Thursday that the German army might allow non-German European Union citizens to apply for certain specialist roles.

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