“Unchain My Heart.” A Defense Industrial Policy Agenda for Germany’s Zeitenwende

Borchert, Heiko; Schütz, Torben; Verbovszky, Joseph

doi:10.1007/s12399-022-00926-4

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Master and Servant: Defense AI in Germany

Borchert,

Schütz,

Verbovszky

2024

Contributions to Security and Defence Studies

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Germany’s defense AI path is caught in a “master and servant” logic. Germany struggles to readjust its input-driven strategic culture, which puts greater emphasis on the socio-political acceptance and legitimization of military power than on the effects it can achieve. As a result, Germany considers defense AI as a tool—the humble servant—subordinate to humans, who must always remain in the loop. Incrementalism dominates, which makes it difficult to assess what defense AI is expected to achieve and whether it delivers on this expectation. As a result, most German defense AI development projects focus on decision-making support and gradual improvements of other technologies in the fields of Command, Control, Computers, and Communications (C4) and Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR). An open-source intelligence system for crisis early warning, AI-based warning receivers for helicopters, and intelligent image processing for missiles feature among the more prominent, publicly known examples of fielded defense AI capabilities. In parallel to adapting defense structures, Germany has stepped up defense funding. While an aggregate number of German defense AI spending is not available, we contend that the country spends around €50M per year on AI-related software development. As defense AI also affects military education and training, the Bundeswehr’s Command and Staff College as well as the University of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg are preparing to adapt existing curricula and setting up new degree courses. Individual military services also explore opportunities for AI-enhanced simulation-based training, while different initiatives have been launched to train defense AI algorithms.

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Master and Servant: Defense AI in Germany

Borchert,

Schütz,

Verbovszky

2024

Contributions to Security and Defence Studies

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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in a Neoliberal World

Carter,

Smith

2023

Education for Sustainability

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Deutsche Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik gefangen in der Politikverpflichtungsfalle: Die Zeitenwende aus der Sicht der Politikwissenschaft

Bendiek

2024

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ZusammenfassungDas Literature Review analysiert die Debatte um die strukturellen Herausforderungen und die fehlende Anpassungsfähigkeit der deutschen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik im Kontext der sogenannten Zeitenwende, ausgelöst durch den Ukraine-Krieg und veränderte globale Rahmenbedingungen. Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz beschrieb den 24. Februar 2022 als Zeitenwende in der Geschichte Europas, was neue Sanktionen und Investitionen in die deutsche Verteidigungspolitik legitimieren sollte. Dennoch zeigt sich, dass Deutschland keine umfassende strategische Neuausrichtung realisiert hat und weiterhin stark an die USA gebunden bleibt. Die mangelnde Anpassungsfähigkeit deutscher Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik erklärt sich aus einer Kombination von institutioneller Politikverflechtungs- und idealistischer Politikverpflichtungsfalle. Ideenbasierte sowie institutionelle Ansätze bieten Erklärungen für diese Immobilität deutscher Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik.

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“Unchain My Heart.” A Defense Industrial Policy Agenda for Germany’s Zeitenwende

Cited by 4 publications

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Master and Servant: Defense AI in Germany

Master and Servant: Defense AI in Germany

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in a Neoliberal World

Deutsche Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik gefangen in der Politikverpflichtungsfalle: Die Zeitenwende aus der Sicht der Politikwissenschaft

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