Lend a hand in the battle against German army IS

Participation in the fighting in Syria and Iraq is a reaction of the German government to the bombings last month in Paris. The parliament, the Bundestag must still approve the plan. The chairman of the Greens, Simone Peter, warned that the government has no legitimate reason to deploy the Bundeswehr, such as a UN mandate for military intervention abroad.

Reconnaissance and refueling
The German government wants the armed forces will carry out reconnaissance, fighter planes in the air refueling will perform with a tanker aircraft and other odd jobs for the international coalition. There should also be a navy ship to the region to provide a French aircraft carrier protection.

Participation in the battle will be limited according to the Cabinet in the first instance to a year. André Wüstner, the chairman of the association of military personnel, the Deutscher Bundeswehrverband, said he assumes that this fight is going to take much longer than a decade. The Islamic State is not only in Iraq and Syria, but present throughout North Africa and Mali. And only bring air strikes IS not at the knees as Wüstner. "If we want to fight and destroy IS, there must come a very broad approach to this problem and not just a military approach."

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