The Bundeswehr has seen the number of its soldiers going from 500,000 in 1989 to less than 200,000 today. Faced with this situation, the government promised to strengthen its means.
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By discovering the message posted by General German Alfons but on the social network Linkedin, Thursday, February 24, some believed that his account had been hacked. First, because of the rather unexpected entry on the part of one of the highest grades of the Bundeswehr: “You wake up in the morning and you find that there is the war in Europe.”
But above all because of the following: “In forty and one years of service in peacetime, I never thought of living a new war. But the Bundeswehr, the army I head, is more or less dry. The options we can propose to the policies to support the [Atlantic] alliance are extremely limited. This, we have all seen it coming, but we could not assert our arguments or drawn the Lessons of the annexation of Crimea [by Russia, in 2014]. I am angry! “