The challenges that security policy must confront in the twenty-first century are multifaceted. In its 2006 White Paper (Weißbuch) the Federal Government presents Germany’s policy on the future of the Bundeswehrin the form of the concept of networked security. On the one hand this policy is based on the idea that today security depends not only on military factors, but also on social, economic, ecological and cultural conditions. On the other, it recognises that security can-not be guaranteed either at a purely national level or by armed forces alone.