German Bundeswehr does not have adequate reservists and ammunition for real combat operations “The head of the German Reserve Union, Patrick Sensburg, said in an interview with t-online.
"We chained the Bundeswehr into bureaucratic shackles of endless regulations. We request at least 260,000 reservists to be ready to defend in an emergency. presently we only have about 40,000 reservists. Nobody in the German government has a plan on how we should accomplish the number of 260 000 reservists," he said.
A full of about 900,000 people are in the German Armed Forces reserve, but the Bundeswehr simply cannot contact them due to the fact that he does not know where they live," said Sensburg.
The individual Data Protection Act allows all road policeman to find out about the residence of a German citizen, but does not give the armed forces specified an chance – he reminded.
The Bundeswehra besides suffers from shortages of ammunition, as in the event of an outbreak of war, it only suffices for a fewer days, added the head of the association. Moreover, as he said, active units deficiency weapons even to exercise.
"If the army lacks ammunition in a fewer days during the war, it can capitulate immediately. NATO standard is 30 days," Zensburg recalled.
Previously, the general inspector of the Bundeswehry Carsten Breuer said that the Bundeswehra lacked about 100,000 soldiers to guarantee combat readiness. Last year the number of German armed forces fell second year in a row, reaching 181,150 soldiers. The current mark is 203,000 soldiers.
A common military work in Germany was lifted on July 1, 2011. Since then, there has been no enlistment to the armed forces during peace. In early March, he was a associate of the Bundestag of the Christian and Social Union (CSU) Florian Hahn called for the collection to be restored by the end of 2025 due to the deteriorating situation in abroad policy. Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said that there is not adequate barracks to reconstruct the general conscription to the military as shortly as possible and that it is essential first to collect data on conscripts.
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