New Strategy Empowers Germany’s Defense Industry

The German government adopted a new National Security and Defense Industry Strategy on Wednesday. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius noted in a joint statement with Economy Minister Robert Habeck:

It is crucial for Germany’s defense capability that we have innovative and efficient defense companies in the country. The current threat situation requires us to promote key technologies in Germany.

The goal: A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense emphasized that current “capability gaps” must be closed in joint cooperation “with partners in Europe and beyond.” He noted that systems need to be developed that do not yet exist, “not even within nato.” Finally, they also must be produced in sufficient quantities.

Ready for war: The paper calls on Germany to invest more in cybersecurity and other security- and defense-related technologies. It classifies information technology, communication technology, artificial intelligence, ammunition, naval shipbuilding, tanks and air systems as key sectors.

In view of the current threat situation, Germany needs to become defense capable as quickly as possible in terms of national and alliance defense, as well as continued military support for Ukraine.
—National Security and Defense Industry Strategy

State intervention: The federal government also examines “the possibility of acquiring stakes in companies in [the security and defense industry] in exceptional strategic cases under the conditions of Section 65 of the Federal Budget Code,” the paper notes.

An ignored warning: In a February 1945 policy document on Germany, United States President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said:

It is our inflexible purpose to … eliminate or control all German industry that could be used for military production …. It is not our purpose to destroy the people of Germany, but only when Nazism and militarism have been extirpated will there be hope for a decent life for Germans and a place for them in the comity of nations.

These restraints have been removed. Germany claims to have overcome its past, but can it be trusted?

Learn more: Read Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry’s article “Germany’s Astonishing Military Rise.”