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I wonder if you saw that Germany has unveiled a 20‑year plan to turn the Bundeswehr into Europe’s strongest conventional military by 2039? Whilst aspirational, it is built around a major expansion of manpower, capabilities and readiness, all tied closely to NATO planning. The new strategy, “Responsibility for Europe,” names Russia as the primary threat and shifts Germany’s focus back to national and alliance territorial defence rather than overseas missions.
Berlin aims to grow the active force from about 185,000 to 260,000 troops, while expanding the reserves to at least 200,000, creating a combined pool of roughly 460,000 personnel. Reservists are to be treated on par with regulars and used both for homeland defence and to run Germany as a logistics hub for moving NATO reinforcements east.
Now given the track record of Germany and armies in Europe over the past hundred years or so, you might feel a slight trepidation that one hundred years since 1939, Germany will once again have the biggest Army on the European continent. But if gets worse that that.
You see based on current trends, around 15–25% of 18–30‑year‑old German men in 2039 could be Muslim. That could further increase depending on inbound immigration and it may well be that ONE THIRD of the biggest military force in Europe by that time will be Muslim. Does anyone else see a potential problem here? Will their loyalty be to the Germans Fatherland or will it be to Islam? The German army plans to recruit its first Muslim imam for the growing number of Muslims in uniform.
“Islam has become the third largest religion in Germany and we are trying to figure out whether it would be possible for our Muslim soldiers to have their own chaplain,” a Bundeswehr spokesman told the Bild newspaper.
The army decided earlier this month to open a new branch for its religious services centre in the western city of Koblenz.
By 2039, it is estimated that 88 million Muslims will live in Europe, and that’s a lot of political strength. Now whether or now Muslims are even prepared to fight for their host countries is questionable. If we look at the UK, all sources are consistent that the Muslim share of serving personnel is well below 1%, compared with roughly 6–7% of the UK population identifying as Muslim in the 2021 Census. So there is an observable reluctance to serve our Nation and that may well be driven by the fact that sometimes we engage in military action AGAINST Islamic countries.
Some will wonder the wisdom of accepting people into our country who refuse to fight for it. There is one final even darker thought; what if we provide military training to those who might end up fighting against us?
