BERLIN—A dozen senior German officers convened at a triangle-shaped military compound in Berlin about 2½ years ago to work on a secret plan for a war with Russia. Now they’re racing to implement it.

Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It's the first long-term deployment abroad since World War II.

With the votes of the governing Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD), the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament, passed the budget for 2026 on ...

Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine recently passed the four year mark. And over that time it has ...