The Bundeswehr has transport and infrastructure problems

Bundeswehr transport mammoth mission

These days, anyone asking the federal and state governments gets little information — most importantly, no one feels responsible.

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Berlin The comrades of the Armed Forces Command (FüSK) deliberately declared their confidential meeting unspectacular: the officers called their meeting with the freight transport experts from the “Lessons Learned” workshop of Deutsche Bahn AG. The small group discussed the “prioritization” of military transport on the rail network and the “optimization” of processes.

Everything had to be subordinated to an objective: the Bundeswehr wanted to be “ready to move” within five days in order to move heavy equipment like a Leopard tank or tens of thousands of soldiers. Something like this only works with the train.

At the end of the summer of 2020, the Bundeswehr was already playing out the scenario which is slowly threatening to materialize with the war in Ukraine: a “major disaster situation in Germany”.

This is what the generals call the transit of allied materiel through the republic to the east, with materiel landings at seaports and airfields and possibly deployment of troops, while at the same time refugees and, in the worst-case scenario, the injured are pouring into the country – cyberattacks and disinformation included.

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