Germany Assuming A Greater Military Role On The World Stage
Germans with a Patriot missile battery. Germany has voted to send two Patriot missile batteries and 400 soldiers to Turkey. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters
Germany, for Decades a Pacifist Power, Faces the Need to Play a Military Role -- New York Times
BERLIN — When Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted a recent reception for military families, she greeted parents, wives and children whose loved ones were spending their holidays in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Kosovo and off the Horn of Africa. German deployments overseas, Ms. Merkel said, “will soon encompass the entire globe.”
On that same wintry afternoon, members of Parliament debated whether to add to the nearly 6,000 German troops currently serving abroad by sending up to 400 soldiers to Turkey, where they would operate two Patriot missile batteries to help protect their NATO ally from a potential escalation of the civil war across the border in Syria.
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My Comment: The other former World War II axis power is also starting to assume a greater military role .... but for different reasons.
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