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„Zur Entspannungspolitik gehörte immer eine starke Bundeswehr. In den 70er Jahren gab die Bundesrepublik drei bis vier Prozent der Wirtschaftsleistung für Militär aus. Das sollte man nicht vergessen“.

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„Enable & Enhance“ und „Ertüchtigung“ waren ab 2014 die Philosophie deutscher Sicherheitspolitik. In Mali sind Idee und Umsetzung krachend gescheitert. Was folgt daraus für die Zukunft? nzz.ch/der-andere-bli…

Ever wondered how external experts in Germany warned about Russia’s war on Ukraine and what the new German government under Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz could have known when responding to the emerging crisis in the winter of 2021/2022? Long weekend thread following...
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vorsitzender der #Afghanistan - #Enquete |kommission des #Bundestag |s, michael müller ( #SPD ), sagt gerade bei öffentl. veranstaltung dort, dass sich mitglider des bundestags darüber sorgen, wie 'schleppend' afgh. verbündete von der #Bundesregierung in sicherheit gebracht werden

Von Sylke Tempel habe ich gelernt, mir auch Dinge zuzutrauen, die mir auf den ersten Blick eine Nummer zu groß erscheinen. Deshalb, Ihr jungen außenpolitisch interessierten Frauen da draußen, bewerbt Euch! 👇

“No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all of your knowledge is about the past and all of your decisions are about the future.”(Ian Wilson)
GPPi's new strategic #foresight portfolio is now live:
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It could be so simple:
„European leaders came to Cairo to explore joint interests and deal with Gaza war and regional security“.
Why do you need to wax poetically about „deep partnership“ and „Egypt as a pillar of stability and security“?

A very interesting meta-analysis of completed reviews of various nations’ involvement in the war in #Afghanistan 👇 gppi.net/2024/02/22/nev…

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Die DB-Logistiktochter Schenker meistbietend an den Golf zu verscherbeln, weil man haushaltspolitisch verzweifelt
ist.

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New project REUNIR Horizon Europe Project GPPi:
Anticipating authoritarian foreign influencing in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and making EU foreign policy fit to respond. #forecasting #foresight #enlargement #neighborhood
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It is so, so, so deeply frustrating that this dispute over the EPF has been unresolved for MONTHS. For once, the EU has a tool that works reasonably well and makes a difference. It is far from perfect, I know. But this? Really?

Einsatz im Roten Meer: „Hessen“ wehrt zwei Drohnen ab augengeradeaus.net/2024/02/einsat…

The Hessen (F-221), a Sachsen-Class Frigate of the Germany Navy currently Deployed to the Southern Red Sea as part of the E.U. Maritime Coalition dubbed “Operation Aspides” has reportedly Repelled its First Attack by the Houthi Terrorist Group in Yemen, with at least 2…

In #Ukraine , #Syria , West Africa, 'national, regional and global actors are using the same bureaucracies, the same budgets, the same administrative systems, and only slightly adapted strategies and tactics' compared to #Afghanistan .
So: Never say never. gppi.net/2024/02/22/nev…

'First, there is the moral debt to the victims and casualties of the war to at least learn from the costly policy mistakes that were made.'
And: some government will again find itself embroiled in a complex #statebuilding or #counterinsurgency project. Plus:

The era of massive intervention is over,
challenges faced in Afghanistan are irrelevant for the future?

'That would be a dangerous conclusion'
say Philipp Rotmann Florian Weigand & Tina Blohm: gppi.net/2024/02/22/nev…

Exciting 2 days in Brussels kicking off REUNIR Horizon Europe Project on making #EU 's enlargement&eastern neighborhood policies fit for purpose in context of Russian & other threats.
Public discussion focuses on most urgent question: how to keep momentum for enlargement in a world in turmoil?

So, TODAY (this time for real, starting in 20 minutes), the German parliament discusses lessons from #Afghanistan . If you want to fill in their report card while watching (live at bundestag.de), you could do worse than comparing with what others learned, below