Ready to Fight Fire with Gasoline

Another Luftwaffe boss shows he has bombs for brains

Remember Taurusgate? When several German officers, including its former air force head, were caught making insane and also childish plans for plastering Russia with German missiles but from Ukraine? That and the amateurish manner in which these grand strategists in prankster mode let themselves be caught were daft as well as sadly comical. But lessons have not been learned, even if the German air force is now under new management.

Recently, its fairly new commander-in-chief of has given a very combative as well as intriguingly ill-considered, even jejune interview. Speaking to Britain’s Telegraph, General Holger Neumann released several inflammatory statements. The one that has found most attention was his proud claim that his pilots stand ready not merely to fight Russia at a moment’s notice, but to strike with immediate, large-scale, and – he assumes with that special German military optimism some call fatal arrogance – devastating operations.