Brendan Cole – NEWSWEEK Nov 14, 2025
German lawmakers have unveiled a new military service plan to boost troop numbers as Berlin seeks to create Europe’s strongest conventional army.
The country’s coalition government has proposed a plan that mandates all 18-year-old men to fill out a questionnaire on their suitability to serve.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had pledged in May to turn his country’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, into the strongest conventional army in Europe.
Newsweek has contacted the Bundeswehr for further comment.
Why It Matters
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has raised the alarm among Germany and its European partners about the risks the Kremlin poses to the Continent.
Leaders and analysts have warned that Moscow could attack another country by the end of the decade, and Germany’s push to boost its armed forces could reshape Europe’s traditional military-political dynamics.
What To Know
According to the German government’s new military service plan, beginning next year, all 18-year-old men must answer questions about whether they can serve. From 2027, they would have to undergo medical screening to assess their fitness.
The questionnaire would be mandatory for men and voluntary for women, and they would be taken into account if a war broke out.
The governing parties have said there will be no return to compulsory military service, and that enlistment would be voluntary, but there are concerns that this could change.
The Bundeswehr has about 182,000 troops, but under the plans, the government predicts the figure could rise to 260,000 over the next 10 years, backed by about 200,000 reservists.
By 2029, Germany is expected to spend 153 billion euros ($178 billion) a year on defense, or 3.5 percent of its gross domestic product—the most since reunification.
Lawmakers are expected to vote on the plan by the end of the year. Armin Papperger, the head of Germany’s biggest defense firm, Rheinmetall, told the BBC that by the end of the decade, the country could achieve its goal to create the strongest army in Europe.
This time frame has been the focus of European policymakers concerned about the threat posed by Russia, amid its aggression in Ukraine, record military spending and accusations it is engaging in hybrid warfare toward NATO countries.
General Carsten Breuer, Germany’s defense chief, warned earlier this year that NATO had to prepare for a possible Russian attack within four years, a sentiment reiterated by other European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week.
Merz outlined Germany’s military ambitions in May. Politico reported that it had seen internal procurement papers of plans for 83 billion euros in defense contracts—including tanks, frigates, drones, satellites and radar systems—to go before lawmakers before the end of next year.
What People Are Saying
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said, according to German media: “Other European countries, especially Nordic ones, have shown that the principle of voluntary service combined with attractiveness works—and I expect it to be the same here.”
Christoph Schmid, a German Social Democratic lawmaker, said, per Politico: “The expectation is that Germany will finally step up and match its economic weight with defense power.”
What Happens Next
The draft bill is set to go before the German parliament in December, and it could be passed by the end of the year—although it is likely to face opposition from those on the political left who view it as a possible lurch toward mandatory military service.
What are they defending themselves against?
Wait a few days and there’ll be loads of click bait saying they’re all “nazis”.
The only thing to note is that the jews think they’ll need loads of german cannon fodder to carry on their war against the russian people. Oh, and of course, no one will do anything to stop them.
An EU army will probably make the first big mistake NATO made and thank goodness they made it. They cut back too much on military preparation, so instead of each country cutting back a bit to leave a strong defensive alliance, they each cut back so much they left a force no more powerful than an average country.
Then they put f**ktard America in charge, so much so that western generals wear stars, and under US rule it became obvious NATO is not a defensive alliance but an aggressive one. We didn’t need a NATO to defend us because we’re the ones the other side needs defending from. An EU military will become a boondoggle for rich investors–they’ll all have a finger in that pie–and it’ll cost us all our social services.
They, The Germans, as in ‘Germans’. Will have to be quick about it.
Simply because where are they going to get all these willing able bodied ‘men’ from their gene pool ?
Under 12’s are already outnumbered by the off spring of Jimmy Grants. & so so many German young lads today haven’t the will or intent to ‘join an army’.
Same UK, France, Holland… etc etc & still the invaders flood in. LEGALLY too, forget this nonsense about ‘illegals’.
That’s only a tiny percentage of the problem.
The Answer, Stop all immigration. & start moving the ones already ‘here’ OUT.
Huge ‘BUT’ here. This German super army isn’t to combat the invaders is it. Oh no.
Just to send Caucasian patriots into a massive meat grinding machine.
This is the real issue the media or governments won;t touch.
Arthur Kemp informs us, via The Burning Platform, that the UK birth rate (per woman)
is 1.55. yes, pretty consistent with other low European countries replacement rates EXCEPT..
We all know the Jimmy Grants within, are out breeding us wholesale, So I ask,
If all the Immigrant births are included in this stat’. What is the actual birth rate per BRITISH Caucasian woman ! Mohamed has been the No-1 boys name for a long time now, where are all these UK Patriots going to come from. ?
There ain;t going to be any kind of a so called backlash/Fightback. Even among ourselves we are divided. I still say it, The Mid-1950’s was the tipping point if such an action was ever going to succeed .
The uneasiness & divisions were already apparent back then.
israels little bitch i suspect
Time to finish off any remaining white Germanic men in Europe. Soon we will ignite Waste Whitey III somehow, haven’t figured out the details yet, but we’re working on it. After whitey kills each other again then Moschiach will arrive and reign over a world of wogs.
Shalom
I wonder how the new Wehrmacht will react when they discover that their homes are now a radioactive wasteland.
yes Merz show Putin the ugly Pisstoir Fritze !
I would hardly expect any of the millions of migrants and other third worlders who now call Germany “home” to be interested in any minute way in serving in this new and improved army. Obviously, that obligation will devolve onto the usual cannon-fodder, namely the white, indigenous German boys who will be expected to risk their lives fighting for a government that is clearly working against their best interests, a government that encourages miscegenation, refuses to protect them from the imported rapists and murderers in their midst, excuses and explains away the crimes of these people and even persecutes and imprisons anyone who objects. And not only that, but a government that continues to embrace and vigorously propagate the insane idea of collective German guilt for a genocide they know very well never took place.
A very good idea if in all of our dysfunctional nations like Germany we were to conscript 18-year-old MALES and not FEMALES (and not males who think they are females) to serve in the military for two years in order to make them into real and responsible MEN. However, we would first have to fire all of the brass in our armed forces who are only reflections of our woke and corrupt hierarchs running things.
One of the main problems we are facing is replacement politics where are nations are being replaced with people of entirely different and even adverse cultures, yet in many cases the newcomers are quite right in not buying into our Western culture which has become so corrupt and decadent. Our real problems have come the media, government, court and educational systems which are doing more to kill us off than their bioweapons, vaccines and chemtrails. The younger generations are saddled not only with mountains of debt, poor job prospects, massive inflation, and the seeming impossibility of starting a family and having children, but also with globalist dictated DEGROWTH and WOKE ideological brainwashing. In any case there are so few of them coming from naturalized families in our nations or from single parents, and of those many of them so warped by the sate brainwashing and neglect, few of them would want to serve, but with the proper incentives for training and real maturity making them into stronger and more skilled and responsible persons that could change, and it would give more life to our nations.
If there is any evidence that serving in a reformed military would make young men better and more responsible human beings – learning not just to seek their animal instincts or end up as a woke dope – then we should have each male youth serve their nation for a two-year stint, and at the same time work towards a culture where the women see more value in being women, having children, and really have a chance of having a stable marriage with a man who has learned not just to serve his own interests, but rather to serve a higher duty which is his God, his family, and his nation. No matter how we look at the facts women are the custodians of our survival, and mothers are the centers of every happy family.
The men in the course of their service also could get valuable for training for various occupations that are needed in our nations.
Who was it who told German politicians Russia is the enemy?
Germany will be fighting for a uni-polar world.
How daft is that…
Send all the poofters and LGBQT+ to the front lines.
The Russians will ROTFLMAO and die laughing !
Game Over !!!
The selfishness means Whites enjoy their lives but also go extinct
ooh some very good comments here
so some folk have woken up
LOL German male lineage has been castrated over the past century. The brave DNA of the German male has been removed during WWI and II and just after in Reinemeadows prison and Siberian Gulags. There are very few Germans left with real testosterone.
@ MACHINEWRECKER
you are in error . less the blacks but atleast a lot
of moslems are doing what the former greenleftist
68er generation did with success : underwander the
system . moslems employ into police + military .
they will do it (not fight against russia) so long as
they see fit to have enough moslems under arms then
will topple the system + take over . thats their well
calculated way . GERMANY IS DOOMED ! + not
the only in europa ! THANKS BITCH MEHRKIILL !
Grow A Pair Fritz!
& cleanse the Levant of the Kikeroaches
You know you want to…
Unfinished Business?
@ Rothschild
Great Satire!
Striving to ruin the country’s economy and at the same time planning to field the biggest army?
Sounds crazy and contradictory to me.
Are those parasites in charge demented?
Or not?
Perhaps swatting 3 flies with one stroke – they really mean destruction for Germany.
Economic and physical.
The EU/NATO has to be the biggest collection of dimwits and nitwits the world has ever known. These thieving rat bastards, minions of the Jews, will not stop until the nukes are flying and the entire planet is scorched into oblivion. Jews are behind it all. They need to be rounded up and destroyed. It’s fairly simple to see how so many countries came to the same exact conclusion about these lying thieves and murderers.