Neither he nor his most likely foreign minister, RudolfScharping, needs his memory jogged about what happens when Germany tries to dominate or go it alone.
RudolfScharping, the defence minister, who is conducting an internal review of his own and has fought hard to prevent the planned cuts, could, the chancellor said, keep any savings, perhaps as much as DM2.6 billion a year, by shrinking the armed forces' bureaucracy.
