Brit here, not sure how it is in Germany but the UK fucked up recruitment with two main problems (from my perspective as a member of Gen Z)
We treat veterans like shit the same as the US does
We functionally have no territorial army, militia or equivelent, we used to but now those are elegible for overseas deployment which ruins the entire purpose of signing up to be better able to defend your homeland.
Brit here, not sure how it is in Germany but the UK fucked up recruitment with two main problems (from my perspective as a member of Gen Z)