Phase 2: The War on Terror: Becoming An Expeditionary Force for Good Order at Sea

The German navy had never conceived it would one day have to face piracy or become a global force for good order at sea. In the only ever ‘war’ this navy exclusively configured for warfighting ever fought, the Global War on Terror, it did both. Until the late 1980s, even the Mediterranean was still considered ‘out-of-area’, while nothing but honing its warfighting skills for deterrence was the navy’s core mission.