Episode 16: German special operations infantry officer Julian Werner on training and readiness in European militaries

Earlier this year, we chatted with Julian Werner, an infantry officer in the German Bundeswehr's EGB (Specialized Army Forces), a SOF unit comparable to the US Army Rangers. In addition, he's a research fellow at the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich. An exemplar of the "warrior-scholar" archetype, Julian spoke with us about everything from shoothouses to strategic-level defense policy issues in an uncertain age for the transatlantic alliance. Julian's profile at CISS