“The Germans Are Worshiping the God of War Once More”

That bold statement is the title of a recent article published in the Telegraph (June 15, 2024). The article notes that, thanks to the Ukraine conflict, many nations are coming to understand that modern warfare is really an artillery war. He then cited Joseph Stalin’s reference to artillery as the “God of War.” The war in Ukraine uses “millions of shells and hundreds of thousands of rockets a year.”

Yet while Russia’s military output dwarfs that of Germany and most European nations combined, Germany “might be the best example of this determination to add artillery firepower. The Bundeswehr has an ambitious plan to more than double its artillery inventory” by 2035. Germany is producing greater numbers of artillery pieces and ammunition for both their own nation and for Ukraine. But will it be enough for future needs?

The ancient Assyrians were the predecessors of the modern Germans. The powerful Assyrian army was responsible for crushing and then taking into captivity the kingdom of Israel. The names of Assyrian kings—Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Tiglath Pileser III—bring to mind great and powerful armies. Ancient pagan nations were polytheistic and had gods for many elements of life: a god of fire, a god of the harvest, fertility gods and goddesses, and, of course, gods of war! Will the modern descendant of Assyria—Germany—produce another great army that again goes to war in the Middle East? To find out, read our telling article “Resurgent Germany: A Fourth Reich?”