http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220411-011059-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/german-arms-exports-as-part-of-a-coherent-foreign-and-security-strategy/ German Arms Exports as Part of a Coherent Foreign and Security Strategy - From case-by-case ad hoc practice to law-based export policy Wallraff, Arnold eng 2022-03-20 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 German foreign policy Security Strategy Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The analysis of Germany’s strategic restraint to date is of double importance for German arms export policy. First, what has been and continues to be apparent here is a strategic reticence in the sense of a strategy deficit and, above all, a deficit in the culture of debate – both with regard to parliament and to the general public and the media. Additionally – and here lies the difference to Germany’s general military restraint – Germany, and all German governments in recent years and decades, have supplied war weapons and other armaments to all regions of the world on a very substantial scale, without such a basis for discussion, strategy or action.