According to security expert Christian Mölling, the future defense minister must emancipate himself from the chancellery in order to be successful. Mölling said on Tuesday in the stern podcast "Ukraine – the situation": "In the last few months, the Chancellery has basically overridden the Ministry of Defense because there were no impulses." This is ineffective and must be stopped. "The new defense minister must first emancipate herself from the chancellery. That will be a difficult task," explained the research director of the German Society for Foreign Relations. Literally, he said: "The question now is how do you get the full-blooded political crats back from the chancellery and say: Well, I'm defense minister here now."

Regarding the challenge for the successor to the resigned Minister Christine Lambrecht, Mölling said: "The gap between reality and vision, where we actually have to go, is enormous." In order to be able to fulfill the task, a commitment from the finance minister is first required that the regular defense budget will increase in the coming years. According to Mölling, the top job in the Ministry of Defense is also made more difficult by the fact that the Bundeswehr reform is a task for many years, but progress should be noticeable in a relatively short time. "In a first interim step, they are forced to put something down in two years where they say: With this we can at least go into the election campaign." Overall, the task is such that she does not want a candidate: "No one is in the mood," said the expert. "No one wants to take that risk of sitting in that ejection seat right now."

Mölling said the Ministry of Defense must rebuild the Bundeswehr, support Ukraine and also tackle major future tasks with the Allies. The special fund of 100 billion euros is not enough for this. "An additional 200 billion is probably what you need," said Mölling when asked by military commissioner Eva Högl that experts had determined such a magnitude.