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For some it's an ambition, but not a priority. Germany simply doesn't pay skilled people enough to serve as cyber soldier.
How does mandatory armed or civil service fit into this model?
It could help. Mandatory service typically gets you young people straight from school. That means you need to train them. To be good at cybersecurity and cyber warfare takes years though. Not something you can teach over the course of a year of service.
If they get them straight from Gymnasium, there's still time to pound the whole "love of country/fellow countrymen,” too. I don't know because current generations are leaning alarmingly right.
Germany is still far below the patriotism of France or Poland. Some adjustment towards their levels of patriotism is about time.
Patriot is a fancy way of saying nationalist, nowadays. But there's no reason not to have a love of country/fellow citizens. Or global citizens. And that doesn't preclude defense.