scholarly journals The Process of Equipping the Bundeswehr: Determination, “Narrow Places” and Results with Drones by the Early 2020s

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 176-201
Author(s):  
Ph. O. Trunov
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
High Tech ◽  
World War ◽  
Industrial Base ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
German Armed Forces ◽  
The Usa

The usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been becoming one of the factors of the armed conflicts development and also the regulation of them. It means that readiness and ability to use UAVs effectively and the scale of equipping the armed forces with UAVs are rather important criteria of the legal capacity of the state armed forces. The article tries to explore the development of this process on the example of German armed forces which traditionally has had rather developed and high-tech industrial base.The Bundeswehr`s equipping with drones allows not only to decide some military-tactical problems but also to fill the shortage of personnel. It is too important in the context of the planned growth of all parameters of German armed forces for long-term perspective. The article presents the types of the Bundeswehr non-combat, especially recon drones, the features of their usage in zones of the armed conflicts. The Bundeswehr faces some difficulties in the question of equipping by non-combat drones. The article also pays attention to German cooperation with the USA and the EU member states in the sphere of the creating and production of military robots. The author pays special attention to question of the Bundeswehr`s equipping by combat UAVs. This idea actively and at the same time smoothly is promoted by CDU/CSU leaders for a decade. The discussion in the Bundestag is shown (its active phases were in spring and especially autumn of 2020). The article also issues the consequences of possible positive decision of the question of Bundeswehr`s equipping by armed drones. It will mean gradual departure from commitment of “strategic restraint” that is historically determined by Germany’s responsibility for starting World War II.

Austrians into German Soldiers: The Integrative Impact of Wehrmacht Service on Austrian Soldiers during World War II

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 160-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Grischany
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
World War ◽  
German Armed Forces ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Army Service ◽  
German Reich

In March 1983, germany annexed the Republic of Austria, incorporating it into the Greater German Reich. Thereafter, about 1.2 million Austrians eligible for military service were draft ed into the German armed forces: the Wehrmacht. Although we know where largely Austrian contingents fought in World War II, little is known about what, if anything, set them apart from their Reich German comrades. Nor do we know much about their attitudes, their “mindset,” or their subjective experience of military service and war.1 Because we know so little about the attitudes of Austrian soldiers in the Wehrmacht, and since army service—in contrast to membership in the SS or NSDAP—was largely mandatory, it is still possible to argue that Austrians were unwilling soldiers, sacrificed in a war that was not theirs, and that discrimination by foreign rulers fostered an Austrian national consciousness.

Wettertrupp Haudegen: the last German Arctic weather station of World War II. Part 1

Polar Record ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (143) ◽  
pp. 143-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Barr
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
North Coast ◽  
World War ◽  
The North ◽  
German Armed Forces ◽  
Weather Stations ◽  
German Navy

ABSTRACTDuring World War II the German Navy, trying to compensate for the loss of meteorological data from stations in Greenland, Iceland and other areas of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, established automatic weather stations, weather ships and manned weather stations in a zone stretching from Labrador to Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa. In summer 1944 one of the last of the manned stations (code-named Haudegen) was established on Svalbard at Wordiebukta, Rijpfjorden, Nordaustlandet. A party of 11, led by geographer Dr Wilhelm Dege, collected and transmitted weather data from 14 September 1944 to 5 September 1945; the party also explored and mapped the ice-free corridor extending south across Nordaustlandet to the head of Wahlenbergfjorden and much of the north coast from Kapp Loven east to Finn Malmgrenfjorden. After the German surrender in May 1945 the men of Haudegen found themselves apparently forgotten by Allied authorities in Norway, and began preparing for a second winter. They surrendered ultimately to the captain of the Norwegian sealer Blaasel on 4 September 1945, and were thus the last members of the German armed forces to surrender at the end of World War II.

scholarly journals LAHKO BOJNO LETALSTVO V PROTIUPORNIŠKEM DELOVANJU IN ANALIZA UPORABE PILATUSA PC-9

2016 ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
IGOR PRELOG
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Aviation ◽  
Different Types

Besedilo proučuje uporabo lahkega bojnega letalstva v protiuporniških operacijah v nekaterih oboroženih spopadih od druge svetovne vojne do danes. Primerja načine uporabe lahkega bojnega letalstva in sodobna lahka bojna letala v različnih protiuporniških vojnah v tem obdobju. Ugotavlja možnosti uporabe letala Pilatus PC-9, ki se uporablja tudi v Slovenski vojski, v prihodnjih protiuporniških operacijah zavezništva Nato. The article discusses the use of military aviation in counter-insurgency operations in some armed conflicts since World War II up to this day. It compares the principles of the use of counter-insurgency aviation and different types of fixed-wing light attack aircraft in this period of time. It provides an analysis of the possibility of using Slovenian Armed Forces Pilatus PC-9 in future NATO COIN operations.

scholarly journals MEMOIRS OF MEMBERS OF UKRAINIAN MILITARY FORMATIONS IN THE GERMAN ARMED FORCES AS A SOURCE FOR STUDYING THE DAILY LIVES OF SOLDIERS OF WORLD WAR II

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
O. V. Vovk
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
World War ◽  
Secondary Importance ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
German Armed Forces

The article deals with how the memoirs highlight the peculiarities of everyday life of Ukrainian servicemen who were members of Ukrainian military formations in the German armed forces during the Second World War. Ukrainian combatants published a large number of memoirs, which highlighted the reasons that led them to combine their own destiny with service to a foreign country, described the social and construction conditions in which they found themselves, relations between soldiers, the attitude of Germans to Ukrainians, hopes for future Ukrainian revival. . These memoirs are an important source for studying the daily lives of soldiers during World War II. Although the issue of everyday life of Ukrainian soldiers was considered in the works of researchers, it is of secondary importance. Because of this, there is a problem of a more detailed study of the daily life of soldiers who found themselves in various formations of the German armed forces during World War II, and whose activities were not criminalized by the international community. Significant factual material on this issue provides an analysis of the memories of Ukrainian combatants. The publication provides a critical analysis of the memoirs of P. Hrytsak, M. Kalba, V. Ketsun, R. Kolisnyk, T. Krochak, R. Lazurko, K. Malyi, I. Nahaievskyi, E. Pobihushchyi and others. It was found that the memoirs cover in detail the domestic aspects of the service (military training, leisure, material support, cultural life, morale and mood of the soldiers), relations with the German personnel of the units. The authors’ memoirs contain numerous descriptions of the daily life of soldiers during military training, redeployment and participation in hostilities. Eyewitnesses described the soldiers’ equipment, the content of the instructors’ lectures and talks, the arrangement and plan of the camp, the relations between the Ukrainians and the relations with the Germans, and the peculiarities of the soldiers’ leisure. It is important to describe the transformation of the mood of the Ukrainian soldiers of the Division “Galicia”. These sentiments transformed from optimistic to a complete loss of confidence and growing dislike for German uniforms. Studies of this historical issue indicate that the authors of the memoirs describe the predominantly superior attitude of German personnel towards Ukrainians. It is investigated how the memoirs provide information about relations with the local population in the areas where the Ukrainian units were located. The publication highlights how the memoirs characterize the role of the church and priests in the life of Ukrainian units, which consisted not only in the religious and spiritual care of soldiers, but also in everyday life.

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