The German government has published Germany’s first national strategy in 2023. The coalition parties government agreement about the strategy had already announced several months before the start of the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine. The fundamentally new situation in the European security architecture and the chancellor’s announcements on the “turning point” in security policy once again placed the strategy in a new context. Strategy is a collective document that replaced the 2016 White Paper. It provides guidance on how Germany security policy should be adapted to the challenges of the future. The German armed forces (Bundeswehr) are the primary instrument of German security. It is consistently focused on national and allied defense. The strategy draws the conceptual implications on the turning point (Zeitenwende). The guiding principle of the National Security Strategy is integrated security. This is not only about military security, but also about the resilience of the state and nation, the climate crisis and food security.
