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German chancellor Olaf Scholz, as the Munich Security Conference. Much of the government's new security strategy is so anodyne, it could easily be done by ChatGPT (Photo: securityconference.org)

Germany's new security strategy — much ado about nothing

Last week, Germany's long-awaited National Security Strategy of Germany was released. Expectations were high, after months of delays and infighting among Berlin's 'traffic-light' coalition partners.

Many observers excepted a roar, but heard only a mere whimper in the end. To put it mildly, the document is a nice compilation of already existing "strategic" documents, such as the Indo-Pacific guidelines, released in September 2020. But ...

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Peter Hefele is policy director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the official think-tank of the centre-right European People's Party.

German chancellor Olaf Scholz, as the Munich Security Conference. Much of the government's new security strategy is so anodyne, it could easily be done by ChatGPT (Photo: securityconference.org)

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Peter Hefele is policy director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the official think-tank of the centre-right European People's Party.

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