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104. International Institute for Strategic Studies, Military Balance 1990–91,
67–68.
105. International Institute for Strategic Studies, Military Balance 2002–03, 43.
106. Sascha Lange, Neue Bundeswehr auf altem Sockel: Wege aus dem Dilemma:
SWP-Studie (Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 2005): 14–15.
107. Ibid., 7.
108. MOD, Germany, Weiβbuch 1985, § 160.
109. Hanns W. Maull, “Germany and the Use of Force: Still a ‘Civilian
Power’?,” Survival 42, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 69.
110. MOD, Germany, Verteidigungspolitische Richtlinien, 1992, § 8.
111. MOD, Germany, Weiβbuch 1994, § 255, 319.
112. MOD, Germany, Verteidigungspolitische Richtlinien, 1992, § 29–36.
113. Meiers, Zu neuen Ufern?, 125, 136–37, 167–69.
114. Struck, Defence Policy Guidelines, § 32, 40, 46.
115. Franz-Josef Meiers, “Germany’s Defence Choices,” Survival 47, no. 1
(Spring 2005): 153.
116. Hubert Zimmermann, “Security Exporters: Germany, the United
States, and Transatlantic Cooperation,” in The Atlantic Alliance under Stress:
US-European Relations after Iraq, ed. David M. Andrews (Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2005), 129, 150–51.
117. Meiers, Zu neuen Ufern?, 233, 246.
118. Struck, Defence Policy Guidelines, § 33.
119. MOD, Germany, German Security Policy, 24.
120. Ibid., 41.
121. Struck, Defence Policy Guidelines, § 11, 41.
122. MOD, Germany, German Security Policy, 22.
123. Struck, Defence Policy Guidelines, § 52.
124. Radke to the author, e-mail; and Wolsztynski, “La contribution de l’Armée
de l’Air,” 11.
125. Trautermann to the author, e-mail.
126. European Union, Headline Goal 2010, 3.
127. MOD, Germany, Weiβbuch 1985, § 443.
128. MOD, Germany, Weiβbuch 1994, § 626.
129. Ibid.‚ § 632.
130. Jarosch, Immer im Einsatz, 129–30.
131. MOD, Germany, Weiβbuch 1994, § 633.
132. Lt Col (GS) Jens Asmussen, GAF, MOD, Bonn, Germany, to the author,
e-mail, 12 January 2007.
133. NATO, “NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force,” 1.
134. Schmidt, interview.
135. Ibid.
136. Lt Gen Hans-Joachim Schubert (GAF, executive director, JAPCC, Kalkar,
Germany), interview by the author, Üdem, Germany, 5 May 2006.
137. JAPCC, “History”; and Asmussen to the author, e-mail.
138. Gregory, French Defence Policy, 138.