Modernize the Bundeswehr, reinstate conscription
The AfD wants to modernize the Bundeswehr comprehensively and bring back compulsory military service. The platform argues that only a country able to defend itself can help shape the international order and conduct effective diplomacy.
The AfD wants to equip the army better. Young people should have to do military service again. The party says only a strong country has a say in the world. Soldiers should get more respect.
The platform contrasts restoring military capability with a "feminist foreign and defense policy." According to the AfD, the Bundeswehr was starved of funds for decades. It calls for modernizing the armed forces, reinstating conscription, and showing more appreciation for soldiers. The party sees military and economic strength as a precondition for diplomacy.
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„Die AfD dagegen fordert seit ihrem Bestehen eine umfassende Modernisierung der Streitkräfte, die Wiedereinsetzung der Wehrpflicht und eine neue Wertschätzung unserer Soldaten.“Translation: The AfD, by contrast, has called since its founding for a comprehensive modernization of the armed forces, the reinstatement of conscription and a new appreciation of our soldiers.
Placement
- Civil liberties and securityclearly security and order first
Reinstating conscription would bring back a compulsory state duty that does not apply today.
- Foreign policyclearly deterrence first
Suspended conscription would be reinstated and the armed forces comprehensively modernized, which puts military strength first.