Germany needs 75,000 extra troops as NATO braces for Russia threat: Reports

Germany will need at least 75,000 additional troops to fulfil its NATO commitments as the alliance adapts its defense planning to face what it sees as an increasingly hostile Russia, Spiegel magazine reported on Friday.

At their Vilnius summit last year, NATO leaders signed off on the first major defense plans since the end of the Cold War, detailing how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack.