Abstract
30 June 1995 was a watershed date in post-war German history. On that day, the Germans broke through the 40-year-old cocoon which had sheltered them so nicely against the pulls and pushes of world politics. By a comfortable margin, the Bundestag authorized the government to project force out of area — into the former Yugoslavia. Though the licence was not exactly a sweeping one,1 it was revolutionary. For it empowered the government to send German troops into combat for the first time since the Second World War.
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Joffe, J. (1996). No Threats, No Temptations: German Grand Strategy After the Cold War. In: Heurlin, B. (eds) Germany in Europe in the Nineties. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25114-8_12
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