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Germany's defense minister faces troop withdrawal, a promotion freeze, and procurement reform as the US military presence in Europe shrinks from Germany to Poland. The German military expansion is visible in Hesse, while a German soldier secures NATO's eastern flank. Germany also plans to reform its military procurement system and beef up civil defense.
Germany touts a pan-German space command amid a European push to supplant US technology.
by WorldBrief & Maksim Micheliov | AI-generated summary