After decades of low spending, Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz hopes to splurge billions of extra euros on ...

Despite Berlin's plans to boost its military forces, the Bundeswehr still falls woefully short of filling its ranks, a new ...

The German military is facing a manpower crisis, with overall troop levels down despite a recruiting effort aimed at building ...

While German industry gears up to transform the army, the chancellor-in-waiting is also making a ... that “the stakes could ...

The German army's battle-readiness is less than when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, military officials, lawmakers and defence experts told Reuters.

And now he has made history after being tapped to be the first Jewish chaplain to serve in the German army since the Holocaust. Balla, 42, said the fact that the army has restored the position ...

Intelligence-gathering satellites could be launched into space from Scotland under an initiative involving the German ...

"Whatever it takes" appears to be the motto of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who are expected to form Germany's new government. They are set to reform borrowing limits to allow for ...

US strikes deal with Ukraine for ceasefire, says the 'ball' is now in Russia's 'court ... (AP Photo/Omar Havana) Overhauling the military was a key promise of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

"A really big bazooka," wrote Berenberg economist Holger Schmieding, commenting on the German measures. "These proposals for ...

On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor.