Carsten Breuer, Inspector General of the German Armed Forces and the country's highest-ranking soldier, spends nine months in front of DW's cameras warning that Russia could be ready for direct conflict with the West within a few years. The film follows him into a meeting with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, then on trips to Lithuania, southern Lebanon, Ukraine, and the United States, tracking a man who, unlike his predecessors, actively courts newspapers, talk shows, and town-hall audiences to push the idea that the Bundeswehr and German society need to prepare for war. At a brigade headquarters in Vilnius, cameras catch Breuer inspecting a NATO deterrence exercise from an armored personnel carrier when radio communications are suddenly jammed and a Russian reconnaissance aircraft is spotted overhead. Breuer reads incidents like this, along with cyberattacks, sabotage, and severed undersea cables, as deliberate Russian probes of Western resilience. The film builds a close portrait of Germany's top military adviser while giving a rare look inside the country's defense establishment as it recalibrates for a war it increasingly believes has already started.