France seeks to align Germany's long-range strike doctrine with its nuclear strategy.
France is in talks with Germany to align Berlin's approach to deep precision strikes with French nuclear strategy, sources said. Paris warns that a lack of clarity in German military doctrine could cause an unintended Russian nuclear response, and a French official said a conventional attack on a Russian target could reach the nuclear threshold without anyone realizing it. According to reports, Germany intends to spend about $13 billion on a new missile arsenal with ranges of at least 500.