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

A Zeitenwende that delivers one of Europe’s most powerful armed forces needs to correct the (non-existent) position of defense industrial issues within German political discourse. This paper therefore develops a defense industrial policy agenda based on four lines of effort: Make daringness Germany’s prime ambition; establish Germany as a defense industrial framework nation; promote German defense industrial diplomacy with foreign partners; solidify a true public-private defense partnership between the German government and the defense industrial base.