Eric Chauvistré
Eric Chauvistré (b. 1965) did his PhD in Berlin and Canberra on nuclear armament and military interventions. Having worked as a journalist for Reuters, the Berlin daily newspaper Tageszeitung and German broadcaster ZDF, among others, he now freelances in Berlin. In the spring of 2009 he published Wir Gutkrieger. Warum die Bundeswehr im Ausland scheitern wird (We the Good Warriors: Why the Bundeswehr Will Fail Abroad).
The US wants more German soldiers in Afghanistan. The current Bundestag debate goes to show the governments involved have yet to clarify their objectives or give up the myth of the noble warrior, and they adamantly refuse to put the public in the picture, deplores the Tageszeitung.