Merz and Pistorius visit Cold Response 2026
Chancellor and Defence Minister visit NATO exercise in northern Norway. The Army exercises together with Allies in the arctic cold.
A Royal Naval officer has been operating on board a German Naval frigate since 2024. Both sides profit from this.
The history of the Bundeswehr has been shaped by radical political change, technical innovation and ever new security challenges.
Since the end of the Cold War, the demands on German security and defence policy have fundamentally changed.
The Bundeswehr is a unique large-scale organisation. It has more than 260,000 personnel, including women and men in uniform as well as civilian staff.
At the moment, German soldiers are deployed in Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as in the Mediterranean.