{"id":83637,"date":"2026-06-14T07:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83637"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:57:47","slug":"german-army-resurrects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/german-army-resurrects\/","title":{"rendered":"German Army Resurrects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1200\/675\/germany-military-scaled.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Soldiers from the German Armed Forces honorary guard standing in formation during a reception in Berlin\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">Germany is pledging to become a more powerful military force inside NATO, with Berlin\u2019s ambassador to Washington telling Fox News Digital that the country is ready to assume greater responsibility for European security after decades in which the United States carried much of the alliance\u2019s military burden.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;Germany is stepping up \u2014 we heard the call!&#8221; German Ambassador to the United States Jens Hanefeld told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview.\u00a0Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said Germany\u2019s armed forces should become the strongest conventional army in Europe, a goal Hanefeld said is now backed by Berlin\u2019s new military strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: Germany is pledging to become a more powerful military force inside NATO, with Berlin\u2019s ambassador to Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83638,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83637\/revisions\/83638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}