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The non-reform of the Bundeswehr under Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) is taking concrete shape. On individual measures such as the establishment of a territorial command of the Bundeswehr announced on June 13, 2022, the state takeover of the insolvent MV shipyards (only at the Rostock location) for the naval arsenal on July 7, 2022 and in the political sphere the new Bundeswehr Procurement Acceleration Act and new public procurement law This was followed on July 8, 2022 by the "status report on the inventory" with a longer catalog of other projects that were "further developed to the point of decision-making". With the inventory of the Bundeswehr structure and operational readiness ordered by State Secretary Margaretha Sudhof on January 27, 2022, the "key points for the Bundeswehr of the future" were off the table, which Lambrecht's predecessor in office Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) and Inspector General Eberhard Zorn presented on May 18, 2021 had. The "key points" were intended to reduce the staff-heavy nature of the Bundeswehr in favor of improved operational readiness - to the point of dissolving the organizational areas of the medical service and the armed forces base (SKB). It doesn't come to that now.

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