Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) at the presentation of the security strategy on June 14 in Berlin
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Prosperity and security, economic interests and value politics: Germany’s first national security strategy promises too much. About window dressing and other mistakes – a guest contribution.
DGermany has taken the plunge and developed a national security strategy – a process already routine for other G7 countries such as the US, UK, France and even Japan and Canada.
National security strategies are among government’s most complex endeavors: the highest form of statecraft. At its core, it is about thinking through in detail how a state can most efficiently use all the tools at its disposal – military, economic, diplomatic, technological, cultural – to ensure the security of its people.
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