Germany's Top General Favors Registering All Young Men for Potential Military Service

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The Bundeswehr is desperately looking for young people – and is losing precious time in bureaucracy. Wiebke Köhler, former AXA leader and now a reservist, is calling for an end to the rule of law, a new duty to serve and higher age limits.

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The battle for the "New Military Law" escalated between coalition factions and Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.

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Germany's highest-ranking soldier Carsten Breuer rejects a "Wehrdienst-Lotterie". It is not to be drawn, but to be patterned the whole vintage.

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The new military service model is a pinhead of the black-red coalition, it is in parliamentary proceedings. This week, the expert politicians of the Union and SPD continue to advise. Meanwhile, the Minister of Defence is poking on his positions.

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In light of the delays to the new conscription law, resentment is growing within the CDU towards the SPD and Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD). Thomas Erndl, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group's defense policy spokesman, told the "Bild" newspaper (Tuesday edition): "We don't need symbolic debates about conscription, but rather a fully equipped army. It's negligent to constantly talk about a state of tension and defense, and who would h…