German Warriors - From Waterberg to Isa Khel

这本书是从威廉二世到安吉拉默克尔的德国武装力量史。首先，它将分析联邦国防军的军事文化，其次，它将把它的调查结果放在世纪的背景下。它将展示德国军事文化在多大程度上改变了主要的政治和社会停顿。在研究方法上，将社会史、文化史、结构史与军事史相结合，虽然政治和公民社会对军队的看法一直在考虑之中，但重点是军队内部的视角。这本书特别涉及军队的战斗部队和问题，在何种程度上有证据表明，一个持久的战士文化。这本书的标题强调了这种方法。1904年，在今纳米比亚北部的沃特贝格，发生了反对赫雷罗人的战役中最大的一场战斗。这是德国帝国在1871年至1914年漫长的和平时期中最重要的军事事件，也是普鲁士-德国消灭学说的同义词，后来在世界大战中全面展开。2010年，德国地面部队最激烈的战斗行动发生在阿富汗北方的伊萨海勒周围地区。这个村庄是联邦国防军中一个受到批判性讨论的战士文化的同义词。

The book is a history of German armed forces from Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel. First, it will analyze the military culture of the Bundeswehr and, second, it will put its findings in the context of the 20th century. It will demonstrate to what extent the German military culture changed beyond the major political and social caesura. Methodologically, the study combines social, cultural and structural historical approaches with the operational history .Although the view of politics and civil society on the armed forces is always taken into consideration, the focus lies on the internal perspectives of the military. The book deals in particular with combat troops of the army and the question to which degree there is evidence of a persistent warrior culture. The title of the book underlines this approach. The subtitle marks the period of investigation: At the Waterberg in the north of present-day Namibia 1904, the largest battle in the campaign against the Herero took place. It was by far the most important military event of Imperial Germany in the long peace period from 1871 to 1914 and is synonymous with a Prussian-German doctrine of annihilation, which then fully unfolded in the world wars. In 2010 the fiercest combat operations of German ground forces took place the region around Isa Khel in Northern Afghanistan. This village is synonymous of a critically discussed warrior culture in the Bundeswehr.