Thread by @AlexLuck9

As media claims of an imminent resignation by German MinDef Lambrecht are now gaining traction and credibility, let me be the first to buzz kill this particular piece of good news by claiming it will make very little difference.

You see, Lambrecht was not the actual root of the problem, which is a dysfunctional administrative apparatus responsible for the misery we call GER defence capability. This of course is not some genius revelation of mine but long term fact. The office is unpopular for a reason.

Above Lambrecht you have a Chancellor who, for good or bad (mostly bad) is calling the actual shots in defence. As a consequence Scholz regularly threw Lambrecht under the bus when it suited his knee jerk politics, notably with any sort of assistance for Ukraine.

Lambrechts statements how this time Bundeswehr really cannot spare any more materiel and we totally mean it, only to then transfer it anyway, had become a running joke for that reason.

Compounded is the problem by notable parts of military leadership being, directly or indirectly, responsible for the miserable readiness of relevant forces. The PUMA failure being the latest point in case.

If soldiers are not competent to maintain & in some cases even operate their gear, and alternatively no functional industrial support chain is in place to cushion such issues (as questionable as this may be), problems start far below the ministry.

How PUMA leak, supposedly from within the force, ended up being at best half successful shifting blame to industry, at worst a shotgun blast to the face revealing noted issues within relevant units is only the latest example of semi competently executed political infighting.

But wait, there is more. You also have a ministry full of functionaries seemingly incapable of performing basic tasks. The most recent example being budgeting not considering appropriate funding for training & fuel incl for units assigned to VJTF. A well oiled machine this ain't.

And so we end up with, supposedly, more change of leadership, but likely no change in attitude, structures & most notably political & administrative will to, you know, actually fix Bundeswehr. #Zeitenwende in the end means just doing all the same things we have done before. /end