Security policy

Two words on this list share a root that English still has. Kriegstüchtig, able to fight a war, and die Ertüchtigung, the training and equipping of a partner’s forces, are both built on tüchtig, competent, which goes back to the old verb taugen, to be of use. English kept the same Germanic root in « doughty », now written mostly of a stubborn campaigner, and German kept it once more in die Tugend, virtue. The shared history does not make the two words sound alike in a debate. Die Ertüchtigung is administrative: making something fit for its purpose. Kriegstüchtig names the purpose outright, which is why it was chosen and why it is still argued over. The rest of the list keeps to the register of the Basic Law and the Bundestag: the alliance, the constitutional cases, the mandate.