Germany Moving in to Keep Russia out: Implications and Challenges of the Bundeswehr’s Permanent Deployment in Lithuania
Volume 9, Issue 2 (2023), pp. 29–64
Pub. online: 27 December 2023
Type: Research Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
31 October 2023
31 October 2023
Published
27 December 2023
27 December 2023
Abstract
The paper analyses implications and challenges of Germany’s upcoming military deployment in Lithuania. A permanent stationing of brigade-sized military unit on NATO’s Eastern frontier represents a major change in its force posture and a significant shift in Germany’s defence policy. Despite the official German position that the implementation of its military commitments is contingent on Lithuania’s timely improvement of its host nation support infrastructure, the paper suggests that the speed, quantity, and structure of Germany’s deployment also depends on the progress made in rearming the Bundeswehr and its defence policy priorities.
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1Notes
1.‘With a view to maintaining peace, the Federation may enter into a system of mutual collective security; in doing so
it shall consent to such limitations upon its sovereign powers as will bring about and secure a lasting peace in Europe
and among the nations of the world’. Please see Federal Ministry of Justice
(2022).
2.German federal defense budget is around 50 billion euros. According to Schütz and Mölling
(2023),
Germany will need to spend at least 85 billion to reach the two percent target. Hence, difference in wording equals
35 billion per year.
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