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Reforma Bundeswehry w świetle niemieckich raportów polityczno-wojskowych. Cz. 2

Gawliczek P.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2003

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nr 1(50)

124-141

EN

On April 27, 2000, the military leadership of Bundeswehre presented a document concerning a conceptual and planning development of the German armed forces to the German minister of defence. The document included: the bases of German military and security policy to develop a new model of the armed forces; a new profile of German Armed Forces' capabilities and readiness that embraced a spectrum of Bundeswehre tasks and obligations resulting from the Alliance obligations; a new Armed Forces’ model – future organisational, command and personnel structures and a range of the equipment and ordinance modernisation. Serious changes of the Armed Forces command structures were proposed. The points concerning financing and transitional period tasks are still being developed. The document provides for the Armed Forces personnel reductions to 290 000 soldiers by 2010. That number consists of: 202 000 professional and long-term military service soldiers; 84 500 conscripts; the compulsory military service will be reduced to 9 months (now 10); 3500 posts assigned to train reserve soldiers. Particular Armed Forces services would have the following number of soldiers: 196 400 – land forces; 68 000 – air force; 25 900 – navy.

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Reforma Bundeswehry w świetle niemieckich raportów polityczno-wojskowych. Cz. 3

Gawliczek P.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2003

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nr 2(51)

184-196

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On 23 May 2000, the commission headed by the former president of Germany Richard von Weizsäker presented the results of its activities in a 170-page report entitled “Common Security and the Future of Bundeswehre”. This publication was divided in four chapters dedicated to the renewal from the basis, common security, the future of Bundeswehre and reform’s budgetary conditions. Moreover this study contains sub-chapters dealing with the issues of threats and interests, European imperative, tasks and their consequences, military service and personnel reform, command, armed forces and administration, armament and equipment of Bundeswehre as a company. This report includes 3 appendices and 13 annexes in the form of charts, diagrams and figures. In order to enable the federal government to accomplish tasks of Bundeswehre’s reform, the commission recommended such measures as: directing the armed forces structure to the most probable tasks in crisis handling and prevention which will allow fulfilling national and allied requirements and meeting international commitments; reorganisation of the armed forces in order to achieve operational forces of 140 000 soldiers which correspond to their engagement in the Alliance; reduction of the armed forces to 240 000 soldiers in peacetime, including 30 000 10-month service conscripts; maintaining the potential enabling deploying 300 000 soldiers in wartime and 100 000 reservists; reduction the number of civilian personnel to about 80 000 posts together with limiting their tasks, services, garrisons and bases; equal rights for soldiers regardless the sex; developing and strengthening the “Innere Fuhrung” concept, stressing the role of conscience and convictions for the soldier’s morale.

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Reforma Bundeswehry w świetle niemieckich raportów polityczno-wojskowych

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Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2002

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nr 3-4(48-49)

293-314

EN

Currently conducted reform is to guarantee coping with new challenges by Bundeswehre. A special feature of this reform is that it has not been preceded by a complex social and political debate. The impulse to carry out the transformation was sparked by German Defence Minister, Rudolf Scharping in the middle of 1999. Under his auspices German Ministry of Defence issued a complex study entitled „Balance - Bundeswehre at the Threshold of the 21st Century”. This document envisaged changes that had taken place in German armed forces in the previous decade creating the starting point to a planned reform. In turn, at the end of April 2000 Bundeswehre military leadership submitted their own document entitled „Guidelines for Further Conceptional and Scheduled Development of Bundeswehre”. However, on 23 May, 2000, the commission headed by Richard von Weizacker presented the federal government the most important study of German armed forces, a report called „Common Security and Future of Bundeswehre”. In result of the discussion on the proposals presented in the mentioned above studies, the directions of the armed forces development and the schedule of actions were accepted in a parliamentary discussion held in June 2000. Due to the role of the documents, it is important to present their substantial contents. Taking into consideration the editorial requirements of Zeszyty Naukowe it is not possible to publish these whole documents. Therefore, these problems will be discussed in the successive issues. This issue contains the report „Balance - Bundeswehre at the Threshold of the 21st Century”.