By Supantha Mukherjee, Sarah Marsh and Christoph Steitz MUNICH/BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -For Gundbert Scherf - the ...

Germany is preparing to double its annual defense budget to as much as €162 billion ($189 billion) by 2029, a major strategic ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's plan to boost defense spending could remake Germany's beleaguered military into the strongest armed forces in Europe — an idea that has met resistance in the past.

The future war plans of the ruling class threaten not only the lives of a few dozen professional soldiers, but of hundreds of thousands and even millions of people.

Germany has to overcome several obstacles if it wants to become Europe’s strongest military power as NATO faces uncertainty due to shifting US policies, says security expert Matthias Dembinski - Anado ...

Germany Faces a New Morgenthau Plan — This Time, Imposed From Within In 1944 FDR’s Treasury Secretary envisioned a Carthaginian peace, designed to ensure a permanently disarmed, pastoral Germany.

But with a war on European soil and a U.S. president who is less committed to defending Europe, Germany - Europe's largest economy - is stepping up. NPR's Berlin correspondent Rob Schmitz reports.

Less than a year before the end of World War II, the U.S. secretary of the treasury at the time, Henry Morgenthau, drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany. After the serial 1870-1871 ...

With war on its doorstep, Germany plans a major military buildup Chancellor Olaf Scholz's plan to boost defense spending could remake Germany's ... but left a residue of shame around its future.

But with a war on European soil and a U.S. president who is less committed to defending Europe, Germany - Europe's largest economy - is stepping up. NPR's Berlin correspondent Rob Schmitz reports.