Germany's Evolving Covert Action Response to Russia: Policy Preparations

As I've received a security message that I cannot publish the comment below at IntelNews: concerning IntelNews article:

Germany set to enact most sweeping intelligence reforms since World War II   of August 13, 2026 by Joseph Fitsanakis  at https://intelnews.org/2026/08/13/01-3449/

Here are my comments:

"After WW2 West Germany undertook painful soul searching driven by guilt about the activities and memory of the Abwehr (military-foreign intelligence) and more particularly the Gestapo and SS security services during the years of Nazi Germany.

The caused a "soft security" revisional response for decades after WW2. Some felt the intelligence and security services of West Germany and re-unified Germany (1990 on) were too defensive, toothless and publicly transparent - all reducing their operational performance. (East Germany's KGB run Stasi was clearly hard-line different).

The revised approaches outlined in the above article can be seen as redressing the "wokeness" (useful word in this context) of the post WW2 West German approaches.

Also the rising challenge of Putin's Russia (and possibly Belarus) would be driving "free" European counter-measures styled on the CIA's/US Special Forces' long established approaches - see this 6 month old video explainer at https://youtu.be/DqyhyQnL3EE?si=TscZh63xfwPwJs_G

Russia would see its increasingly aggressive hybrid warfare against free Europe as just. This is given free European funding of Ukraine's large drones (long range slow missiles) that are doing increasing damage. This is to Russia's energy infrastructure and weapons eg. $Billion aircraft on the ground (military purposes) and to Russian civilian areas, including Moscow (for political propaganda purposes.)

Cheers Pete
of Submarine Matters (and more) at https://gentleseas.blogspot.com/ "