West Germany was a frontline NATO state, facing down the numerically superior armies of the Warsaw Pact. West Germany established the Bundeswehr, or Federal Armed Forces, and under it, the Heer, or German Army. At the time, Germany was split in two: West Germany, an ally of the United States and a member of NATO and East Germany, an ally of the Soviet Union and a member of the Warsaw Pact. In 1955, a decade after World War II, Germany reconstituted its armed forces. To understand what made the Leopard 2 the most popular tank in the world, we have to go back to the Cold War itself.
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