TY  - RPRT
A1  - Jockheck, Stephan
T1  - Risks of moral exploitation of soldiers through unrealistic recruitment
T2  - sicherheitspolitik-blog.de
N2  - Not unlike the recent report Filling the ranks on the recruitment problems of the British Army shows for the UK, the German armed forces (Bundeswehr) struggle badly to meet their recruitment goals and to fulfill the “Trendwende Personal” (the turnaround in the personnel strength) as proclaimed by the German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen. Last year the recruitment department of the Bundeswehr tried a new way of targeting especially young people on YouTube. With a series of 59 episodes called Die Rekruten (The Recruits) YouTube users followed a couple of German Navy recruits through their basic training at the German Navy Technical School.
The series was widely criticised for not showing the serious implications of military service. Two weeks ago, the new series MALI on the deployment of German forces with the United Nations mission MINUSMA in Mali started as a sequel. But does the new series give a realistic impression of the challenges and risks of being a German soldier today and why should this be a requirement for a YouTube series?
KW  - Bundeswehr
KW  - Rekruten
KW  - Mali
KW  - recruitment
KW  - web series
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45134
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-451347
UR  - https://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2017/11/16/risks-of-moral-exploitation-of-soldiers-through-unrealistic-recruitment/
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CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -