Interjection from Berlin – compulsory military service will come
Hans Peter Bartels
When the coalition of CDU/CSU and FDP suspended compulsory military service in Germany, which had existed since 1956, in 2011, it happened head over heels. There was no professional follow-up concept for recruiting a purely volunteer army, no fallback position, nothing. The main aim of this political coup by the then extremely popular Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU) was to further shrink the Bundeswehr, this time from 250,000 soldiers to 185,000 in order to save money. In addition, military justice had been in jeopardy for a long time.
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