The Bundeswehr
The Bundeswehr is the military services of the Federal Republic of Germany. The branches of the Bundeswehr; the Bundesheer (Army), Bundesmarine (Navy) and the Luftwaffe (Air Force) were unified with the East German Nationale Volksarmee (NVA) during German Reunification in 1996, with the NVA dissolved and its subordinate units absorbed into the Bundeswehr. Before the war the Bundeswehr had a civil administration service which handled the bureaucracy of the defence forces and logistics and medical services. Since the nuclear detonations civil administration staff has been absorbed by the military or have dissolved along with rest of Germany’s pre-war civil service, although the newly formed government performs many administration tasks for the Bundeswehr. Many Bundeswehr command headquarters and logistics bases were destroyed during the war. The Army Command headquarters in Koblenz and the Luftwaffe headquarters at Cologne were destroyed by nuclear strike in 1997, and the Bundesmarine headquarters and Glucksburg was badly damaged by conventional airstrikes. With so many command facilities destroyed surviving staff from the three services amalgamated in late 1997, with the Army soon becoming the dominant command headquarters. The German Army Command in Kiel is now the senior command headquarters and exercises control over all German forces in 2001. The Army Command also incorporated the surviving elements of German’s intelligence community. The Militarischer Abschirmdienst (Military Counterintelligence Service), Kommando Strategische Aufklarung (Strategic Reconnaissance Command), BfV-Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz (Federal Domestic Intelligence Agency) and the BND-Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Agency) are all based in the city of Kiel which has become the intelligence hub of Germany.