Adm. Pierre Vandier, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, expressed the urgent need for member states to reinvest in their defense capabilities. He emphasized that while NATO has initiated several modernization efforts, it still struggles to adapt from decades of focusing on lower-end counterinsurgency operations to preparing for potential symmetric warfare against formidable adversaries. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has intensified the urgency for NATO allies to bolster their military readiness and defense spending, especially along the eastern border where the threat is most pronounced.
NATO still has work to do before it becomes the 21st-century fighting force that it needs to be, and allies need to invest heavily in their domestic defense industries.
I think we forgot all the big principles of a symmetric war, and so it's where we need to reinvest,
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