What she is thinking of in the design....is the Finland example where they keep a very small active duty army, and they have a huge reserve force ready to go.
As for the Putin-threat? Other than the nuke-threat (Germans want to rebuild all the bunkers as well), there’s just not going to be much to threaten anyone with the lessening number of tanks, APCs, helicopters, etc.
NATO last week talked up the idea of giving 40-billion dollars of military stuff each year to the Ukraine. If they do that...they will just financially weaken their own military budget.
Is this a possibility?
We both remember back in the day when young German men were required to serve in the German military for several years.
When did that requirement end?