What to make of Germany’s new military strategy?

Writing in the pro-Kremlin Izvestia, political scientist and Germany expert Maria Khorolskaya sees no cause for concern:

“The numbers cited by Boris Pistorius – 260,000 active soldiers and 200,000 reservists – are nothing unusual. The German Ministry of Defence’s increased activity is less about preparing for aggressive action than trying to fill the gaps left by chronic cuts in defence spending. … The current military strategy looks more like an attempt to get the Bundeswehr into an operational state than a drive towards aggressive remilitarisation.”