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Civilisation, Counter-Jihad, Culture, Defend the modern world, Efficiency, German excellence, German Intelligence, German Leadership of Europe, German Military Strength, German Strength, Industry
English people (for obvious and well-understood historic reasons) are often averse to acknowledging the virtues of the German people, in many ways their most ancient and significant continental rivals. After two world wars in which the ‘Hun’ emerged as nightmarishly cruel and ultimately self-destructive, the English archetype of cool-headed analysis seemed naturally superior to the violent romance of Teutonic ambition.
The Germans have too much hunger; their imagination is too wild; their sense of history is too acute. They succumb too easily to mass-euphoria.
All of these accusations are valid and not just in the context of Nazi Germany.
Nevertheless, deeper down than the part of their nature they expose, the English secretly adore and envy German success. In fact, Germans are probably the most secretly envied (and publicly condemned) racial group in the world.
Nietzsche, Heidegger, Schiller, Goethe, Max Planck, Schopenhauer, Humboldt, Mann, Hegel, Kant, Stirner, Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, Bach, Bismarck, Adenauer, Rocket Science, BMW, Mercedes, Maybach, Adidas, Audi, Bayer, Volkswagen, Porsche, Heroin, Aspirin, IG Farben, Daimler, Bosch, Hugo Boss, Deutsche Bank…
The history of the recent past is dominated by German energy, German initiative and German genius. The German economy is unreachably superior in form and output than any other economy (adjusted for size) outside Japan. If there was a country the size of America populated solely by Germans, it would likely rule the world for a millennium. Indeed, the tragedy of the European Union is that it assumed Europe to be populated by peoples equal in industrial capability to the Germans.
How do we account for German success? Common stereotype has the Germans as more ‘efficient’ than other peoples, but this is not really an explanation for anything. Why are they more efficient, more productive, more inventive and disciplined than the rest of Europe?
The answer is likely a biological and evolutionary one. Germans are naturally better at certain things than French, Italian, English and Spanish people are. The same applies vice versa of course. There are innumerable things that Germans cannot do well that the countries aforementioned can. The English are better writers and shipbuilders than Germans for example.
But we must acknowledge the importance of Germany and its relation to our common security. The German military is now the strongest in Europe, having overtaken the UK and France many years ago. Its population (despite the demographic malaise being as strong there as anywhere else) is still the largest.
European strength is to a large degree dependent on German strength, and history must not force us to disarm ourselves of our strongest shield and sharpest sword.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
”The German Military”’ seems to be a joke, as at present facts speak a different language. Helicopters can’t fly, airplans are grounded, trucks don’t move – it really hurts our defense minister when she is so eager to stick her fingers in the Near East malaise. Possibly it is a good thing that the technical part of our military does not function, we kept our of the Iraq mess and should stay ut of this one.
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The German military is docile by policy but in terms of tanks, aircraft, available manpower and its central position in Europe, it is the strongest army in Europe.
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The UK and French armies are better funded but that does not mean they are stronger. The UK could not possibly defeat Germany in a land war. The UK is however stronger overseas. When I said the ‘strongest in Europe’, I meant within the European theatre.
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The German army has (including active reserve personnel) over 300,000 troops. France has (including active reserve personnel) around 130,000 troops. Britain has a number comparable to France.
The reason France and Britain are usually ranked as stronger is because of naval, transport and overseas assets – none of which are relevant to a European theatre of conflict.
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The French and British militaries have nuclear weapons and secure capabilities to deploy them, which alone prevents any German advantage in regards to military capabilities – if it even exists, different sites always have conflicting information.
Not that it really matters of course.
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