"'If Germany … will continue to take part in the U.N. or NATO missions that involve actual fighting, you need a special forces unit,' Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, told VOA.

'Disbanding the whole KSK would mean that Germany's ability to partake in international missions is severely hampered, because you just cannot be in Mali without the KSK,' Schindler added."