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For Inspector General Carsten Breuer, one thing is clear: Germany is the backbone of Europe's defense.
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Quadriga is the largest exercise by German land forces since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression.
Now Germany's highest-ranking soldier is speaking about the maneuver.
Berlin - The Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, Carsten Breuer, has reaffirmed Germany's special responsibility in NATO with a view to the ongoing major military exercise Quadriga.
“Germany is the backbone of Europe’s defense,” Germany’s highest-ranking soldier told the dpa in Berlin.
“Exercise Quadriga is an important step towards war capability with the aim of deterring an enemy.”
A total of more than 12,000 men and women from the Bundeswehr, primarily from the German Army, will be involved in the exercise, the first alert phase of which has already begun.
It is the largest exercise by German land forces since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
The soldiers involved train alerting, deployment to NATO's external borders in the northeast and southeast, and combat.
Deterrence - along with the training effect - is a key goal amid increasing warnings that Russia could be ready to test NATO's alliance spirit in a few years.
The German exercise Quadriga is part of the major NATO exercise called Steadfast Defender, for which a total of around 90,000 soldiers are mobilized in the alliance.
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