. Again and again I am flabbergasted that staff officers (who are used to NATO staffs) consider staff procedure speeds fine that I conside...

. Imagine six even countries. Two pairs have formed alliances, and these alliances might go to war with each other sometime in the future...

. Back in 1945, Germany was a wreck. it had to be rebuilt with lots of hard work and very little consumption or even luxury. One impor...

. The Bundeswehr has a recruiting problem. It doesn't really know how to recruit. Decade after decade, young men were forced unde...

. What do you think should foreign policy do about a country's economic interests abroad? Which economic interests? Safe and free ship...

. Years ago (2004) I watched a video of an Iraqi insurgent kneeling on a street , aiming a RPG-7 and getting shot (by a Bradley IFV's c...

. (Finally, after about ten weeks , a new military theory text on the blog:) A " wandernder Kessel " (moving pocket) was created...

. Back in WW1 the German infantry needed something to take out machine gun nests and pillboxes at a distance. Indirect fires were too inac...

. Two to four generations ago, the highest form of school degree was rare; only about 5-20% of the youth graduated with such a degree in dev...

. Admitted, at first I decided to post this (hat tip Boing Boing) with a snarky comment like 'You know you read too much when you se...