Germany has, on paper, an army of three divisions. In practice, according to a research fellow at the Council on Geostrategy, even with three months’ warning Germany would struggle to field beyond five battalions outside its own borders.
Five battalions. Against an adversary that has been on a war footing for four years, that deploys 8,000 kamikaze drones per day in Ukraine, and that has been explicitly told by multiple European officials: if a ceasefire frees up Russian assets, Moscow could attack the Baltic states and Europeans alone would hardly be able to stop it. The Czech defence official who said that wasn’t a journalist or an academic. He was a defence official whose country shares a border with a country that shares a border with Russia. He said it to Newsweek with his job title attached.
Five battalions. That’s the gap between the NATO spending charts and the reality of what happens if the phone call comes.
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