I can't offer anything either, although I've heard lots of second hand stories about some frustration in the early ISAF days (think 2004-ish) that we had working with other NATO countries and specifically Germany. One staff officer seemed to figure that the Euro contribution to NATO was a bunch of uniformed tourists.

I can see where this came from; as Fuchs alluded to the Afghan mission seems to be a political distraction for Germany as opposed to a top issue for us in the Anglosphere.

Fuchs post above from 0227 PM sounds pretty good to me - I can't see how the German Army, considering its professional and social history and the brains behind building the modern Bundeswehr, can have its potential judged by its performance in a sideshow in Afghanistan that it never really had the heart for.