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In Rostock, the Bundeswehr trains the transfer of material and personnel. In the scenario, Russia and its troops are on NATO’s eastern flank.
Berlin – The Bundeswehr’s homeland security guards protect important military infrastructure in Germany. In the exercise “National Guardian(in German roughly: National Guard) the soldiers will train on Friday (May 3rd) in the Rostock seaport to protect the loading of weapons and material. The troops are practicing an excerpt from the Germany Operational Plan (OPLAN) in the fictional scenario of a large Russian troop concentration NATO-Eastern flank.
Bundeswehr is practicing for an emergency: In the scenario, Russia threatens NATO territory
The task of homeland security is to defend important infrastructure against attacks or sabotage. These include, for example, seaports and airports, ammunition and material depots, loading stations or troop transfer points. The exercise on Friday at the seaport in Rostock was about military security of the seaport during the loading and relocation of active troops. Parts of the 10th Panzer Division are said to be on a so-called Roll-on roll-off vessel which will take them to Klaipeda in Lithuania.
In this scenario, NATO has decided to relocate large parts of its troops to the eastern flank via the logistics hub Germany as a deterrent. “The concrete scenario is that there has been a large concentration of troops on NATO’s eastern flank. “Russia has called for maneuvers that have the potential to actually threaten NATO territory,” said the commander of the Territorial Command (TFK), André Bodemann, to the news agency dpa the general conditions of the maneuver.
Another assumption in the scenario is that larger parts of the Bundeswehr will no longer be in Germany in the event of a defense, but will have to fight at the front. Reservists and the new homeland security regiments should then take on military protection tasks in Germany – and be supported by the police authorities and other institutions.
Bundeswehr: Military mobility as a significant factor in credible deterrence
“In Rostock, Homeland Security is also making contributions to the large-scale exercise Quadriga24 and securing the seaport,” said the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, Carsten Breuer, commenting on the maneuver on Platform X. Effective military mobility is a significant factor in credible deterrence, the general continued.
Stress on the population through exercise is the “price for freedom and democracy”
“National Guardian” is one of the German exercise series “Quadriga“ and is therefore also part of the major NATO exercise “Steadfast Defender”. In the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War, the alliance with around 90,000 soldiers is rehearsing an emergency: an attack on alliance territory. For this purpose, armed forces train the alert, deployment to NATO’s external borders in the northeast and southeast, and combat. Over 12,000 men and women from the German Bundeswehr as well as 3,000 vehicles from the force are taking part in the training. According to Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Germany has Europe will soon be “the largest conventional army within NATO”.
It was said that the burden on the population caused by the Bundeswehr exercises should be kept as low as possible. Although the homeland security forces would not cause any restrictions in the civilian sector, “the increased relocations during the large-scale Quadriga 24 and Steadfast Defender exercises may lead to an increased volume of traffic,” the Bundeswehr announced on its homepage. “But in the end that is the price that people have to pay for freedom and democracy, that you have to be prepared for some things and that there is a burden,” said TFK commander Bodemann to the dpa (bme/dpa).
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