Germany is an irrelevance in NATO mainly due to its reluctance to deploy their military even non combatants. NATOs last mission in Afghanistan was supported by all except Germany.
Check facts before sounding off...
http://www.dw.com/en/germany-remains...stan/a-4910800
and also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German...in_Afghanistan
Germany is one of the main contributors of troops to coalition operations in Afghanistan.