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German army will need 50,000-60,000 more troops: defence minister

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Germany’s army will require some 50,000-60,000 additional troops under new NATO requirements to meet the threat from Russia, defence minister Boris Pistorius said Thursday.

“We assume, but this is only a rough estimate to be clear, that we need around 50,000 to 60,000 more soldiers in the standing armed forces than we have today,” Pistorius said at a NATO meeting in Brussels.

 

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