SILENT STRESS TEST: IS GERMANY’S ZEITENWENDE FAILING THE HOME FRONT?
Two developments have quietly exposed the fragility of Germany’s security transformation. A classified Bundeswehr operational plan for domestic crisis response—rumored to exceed 1,000 pages—leaked fragments highlighting coordination gaps between military and civilian agencies, while a parliamentary hearing on conscription debates revealed deepening political divides over who bears the burden of national service. These are not…