The text of the global strategy is being kept strictly under wraps until after the UK’s referendum vote.
The new German defence white paper has also suffered a similar publication delay. Due to be published in June, iits release has now been pushed back to July.
However, a leak of a draft of the paper in early May indicated that Germany plans a push for more defence integration by the EU member states as a central part of its own defence policy ambitions in the next few years.