Comments by "Caroline Collett" (@carolinecollett956) on "Sky News"
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We are living in a "hybrid phase", he adds, with threats including "disinformation, cyber attack, espionage and sabotage".
When asked if this is the most dangerous period, in terms of risk of war for Germany since the Cold War, he replied: "Yes, definitely."
"I don't think we are in war, but we are no longer living in peacetime."
Last year, Germany honed its battle readiness including using war games to test how the military or civilians respond. But while ministers and military chiefs talk about the need to get "war ready" - years of deprioritising defence have made that task extremely complex.
Success involves the whole country rising rapidly to the challenge, according to Bodemann.
"Russia is reorganising, restructuring and boosting its forces... We have to speed up to be ready before it is," he warned.
In her annual report, Germany's armed forces commissioner, Eva Hogl, noted the nation's military, or Bundeswehr, faced significant personnel problems as well as continuing struggles with equipment shortages.
At the end of 2023, soldier numbers dropped by 1,537 compared to the year before with more than 20,000 vacant posts.
So how did we get here?
Nato bases in Russias back yard which the Russians find threatening to their country
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