Germany’s military and political establishment is quietly preparing for what it now openly warns could be the gravest threat to Europe since the Cold War: a potential Russian attack on NATO by 2029.
The assessment, revealed in a detailed Wall Street Journal report, underscores how profoundly Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine shattered Europe’s decades-long confidence in stability and exposed the continent’s chronic neglect of defense.
Two and a half years ago, a dozen senior German officers gathered inside Berlin’s understated Julius Leber Barracks to draft a classified 1,200-page war plan known as Operation Plan Germany, or OPLAN DEU.
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