*Editor’s note: Parts of this article were copied from previous FDD’s Long War Journal reports, which are linked throughout. Thomas Joscelyn is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Senior Editor for FDD’s Long War Journal.
News on Wednesday that Germany is creeping toward a recession prompted the U.S. embassy in Germany to tweet: “Investment in the future is key –and where better to start than Germany’s Bundeswehr? [Germany’s armed forces] 2 percent by 2024. NATO.”