Military Commissioner: Troops continue to age and shrink. Högl: Bundeswehr not yet there.

“I receive letters from parents whose children have just started service - in barracks with dilapidated rooms, moldy showers and clogged toilets,” she writes. She refers to an “unprecedented number” of so-called 25 million templates with which the Ministry of Defense gets the green light in the Bundestag for larger procurement projects.