GERMANY - For decades after the devastation of World War Two, Germany recoiled from any prospect of military engagement. Now the country is under pressure to get involved in foreign military conflicts as the US cuts back its role as the world's policeman. Germany's growing military role is now being debated in government and academic circles. Germany has been a pacifist nation ever since the catastrophe of World War II. Any call to deploy German troops would trigger mass protests. Those attitudes are changing. Nobody protested last month when the parliament voted to extend the country's military mission in Afghanistan. Still, German politicians are reluctant to talk about their country's role in securing the world.