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Germany to experience a downsizing of its armed forces

Berlin, Germany - Some 105 bases are expected to be closed and military and civil employment to be lowered by 2010

German Government, within the general programme intended to perform significant downsizing of the national armed forces, would intend to close some 105 military bases definitively. The intention should be considered within the cadre of the employment reduction as it is being scheduled to lower the amount of soldiers from 280,000 down to 250,000 in the Bundeswehr by 2010. German Government would have...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 106599
Rome, Italy, 11/02/2004 18:19
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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