Germany should be prepared for a large-scale military conflict in five years, Captain Michael Giss, commander of the Hamburg State Command of the German Armed Forces, said in an interview with Die Welt published Aug. 11. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Germany has increased its military budget and pushed to ramp up its defense-industrial capacities. “In Germany, we are still miles away from perceiving an external threat today, quite different from people in the Baltic states or Poland, for example,” Giss told Die Welt. “But my internal clock as a soldier is running and tells…