Germany is contemplating the acquisition of three more F127 frigates along with eight Aegis systems. Previously, Germany planned to purchase five frigates. This move indicates a strategic enhancement ...

German leaders intend to ramp up defense spending and build the most powerful armed forces in Europe, but shadows of World ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz is leading Germany's significant military rearmament, aiming for a 5% GDP defence spending target. Photo / Getty Images When Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited the Oval ...

Europe’s defence expansion is constrained by limited local manufacturing capacity and skilled workforce shortages, this is ...

Germany and Europe need both diplomatic efforts vis-à-vis Russia and a credible deterrence as they transform the old ...

As a 2016 German government position paper on the topic points out, however: "Neither in this speech nor at any other point did [Wörner] declare that there would be no eastward expansion of NATO." ...

BERLIN — German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil defended his country’s paradigm-shifting fiscal expansion on Tuesday and expressed confidence that the massive spending increases will not contravene EU ...

Putinism mirrors historical fascism through expansionist ideology, cultural suppression, and internal radicalization, especially in occupied Ukraine, prompting debate on whether modern Russia ...

Europe’s arms manufacturers are duking it out with American rivals to win their slice of the region’s fast-growing military pie, as governments embark on an unprecedented expansion of defense spending ...