target that nato has gemini s up to 1.36 percent so there s still some way to go there germany doesn t like to get involved in combat missions it s jeweled your not war and that s one of the arguments is often made in this relation because germany says you know we put the emphasis on supporting civil society and preventing conflict in conflict regions and germany spends a lot of money there apart from that in recent years germany has got involved in all sorts of overseas military operations there peacekeeping in kosovo they re training in afghanistan they re doing that just ticks in mali and they re also involved in the anti i-s. coalition in iraq and syria of course alongside the united states and these foreign missions we should remind ourselves have only become possible since the end of the cold war in the 1990 s. politically in germany now the nato 2 percent spending threshold that s just one