GERMANY'S NEW DEFENSE MINISTER SCHEDULED VISIT TO AFGHANISTAN DREW BOTH SUPPORT AND CRITICISM OF THE DEFENSE MINISTER.

GERMANY'S NEW DEFENSE MINISTER SCHEDULED VISIT TO AFGHANISTAN DREW BOTH SUPPORT AND CRITICISM OF THE DEFENSE MINISTER.

     Germany's new defense Minister scheduled visit to Afghanistan and specifically in Massarif Sharif for the stationed German soldiers also called the Bundeswehr that ended early morning today drew both suport and criticism of the new defense Minister Ursula Von Der Leyen. The defense Minister emphasized her promise for the requirement of better equipped Bundeswehr whose number has exceeded a thousand three hundred soldiers in Germany's military Base in Afghanistan, despite her government's defense policy for Troops reduction and disarmament of the German military. However, it remains unknown whether Germany's major coalition government may accept the amendment of its defense policy after the Parliament enacted early this year the legislation for Troops reduction and disarmament of the Bundeswehr, despite recent increasing role of responsibility of the German government  in both the domestic and foreign conflicts, or in peace missions with full authority to intervene by use of military force, when necessary to do so.

                                                   Written by Professor Godfrey Ohia.