From 1958 to 1972, the West German army grew in strength from 249,000 to 493,000 troops. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall , the number of troops hovered around 480,000.

Since 2016 the German military — the Bundeswehr — has planned to provide troops with new combat boots. Now soldiers must wait longer to be properly equipped, something one member of parliament ...

First went the goose step, then the imposing steel helmet, then the snappy clicking of heels, a casualty of the West German Bundeswehr’s switch from steel-capped heels to all-rubber ones.

During the Cold War, the Bundeswehr of the German Federal Republic (West Germany), which joined NATO in 1955, had primarily been responsible for defending against a possible attack by the Warsaw ...

a former Wehrmacht colonel who later became an official in the Bundeswehr. Along with other German war veterans just after the war, he worried what would happen if the Soviets invaded. West ...

In fact, the West German Bundeswehr has managed to absorb the East German National People’s Army more easily than the two countries themselves are integrating. And more importantly for the ...

the entire 90,000-strong East German Volksarmee will join forces with the West German Bundeswehr in a military merger of former foes. It is a consequence of unification that has the Defense ...