Germany may need 260,000 troops, far exceeding current target of 203,000 amid Nato demands, says top military unionist

Germany may need 260,000 troops, far exceeding current target of 203,000 amid Nato demands, says top military unionist

Germany will need as many as 260,000 active-duty soldiers to meet Nato’s increasing defence demands, significantly more than the government’s current target of 203,000, according to a report, citing the head of the country’s military union

German soldiers march at a formal inauguration of a German brigade for Nato’s eastern flank in Vilnius. AP File