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Thucydides - Development and understanding of strategies

Naval personnel from the 18th General/Admiral Staff Service National (LGAN) training programme focused on understanding and developing strategy as part of the "Thucydides" seminar at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. The basic principles taught were applied to the actors Russia and China and options for action vis-à-vis China were developed. The time to act is now!

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Maritime specialists

The north-west of the republic is home to numerous shipyards with a global reputation. Civil and military shipbuilding form a symbiosis. The coastal states of Lower Saxony and Bremen are traditionally home to an efficient, future-orientated and globally active maritime industry. It is made up of shipyards, system providers, component manufacturers, facilities and technical and commercial service companies. Naval shipbuilding is particularly important. Maritime industry on the Weser The Fr. Lürssen shipyard, founded in 1875 and based in Bremen-Vegesack, is a world-class northern German shipbuilding company with 2,700 employees. In addition to the headquarters in Bremen-Lemwerder, it has sites in Bremen-Aumund and Berne as well as the subsidiaries Lürssen Kröger...

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Full circle with a supertanker

After almost three decades, the Bundeswehr has returned to national and alliance defence. The necessary change can be mastered with system alliances. At the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, the Bundeswehr - after 35 years of development - had achieved a good position in the conventional arms race with the Warsaw Pact and in comparison with the other NATO partners. As surprisingly as the Cold War ended, there was little certainty as to how the costly armed forces should continue. With the equipment and training for the large-scale, intensive war on the European continent, the Bundeswehr was deployed in a wide variety of different...

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