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NATO Review
NATO Review is a free online magazine offering expert opinion, analysis and debate on a broad range of security issues. It looks at different aspects of NATO’s role in today’s fast-changing and unpredictable security environment. It also covers wider challenges, such as cyberattacks, hybrid warfa...
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NATO Review: Future-proofing NATO’s industrial capacity: how decisions at the NATO Summit in The Hague will strengthen the Allied defence industry
At the NATO Summit in The Hague, NATO leaders recognised that in order to deter any future military conflict, Allies will have to pledge to spending 5...
NATO Review: NATO’s path to peace and security in an unstable world
As the NATO Summit approaches, we stand at a pivotal moment for our Alliance and our shared mission to safeguard peace. The Madrid, Vilnius and Washin...
NATO Review: Fortifying the Baltic Sea - NATO’s defence and deterrence strategy for hybrid threats
Recent events have solidified the Baltic Sea as an area of critical strategic importance. It serves as a vital maritime trading route, hosts considera...
NATO Review: Sharing the burden: How Poland and Germany are shifting the dial on European defence expenditure
The defence posture of NATO member countries, which had already dramatically shifted after 2014, was accelerated irreversibly in 2022 with Russia’s fu...
NATO Review: The voices of a nation: How stories have shaped Ukraine’s fight for freedom
Three years on from the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the values of liberty and volia—a unique Ukrainian word that signifies an un...
NATO Review: Algorithmic invasions: How information warfare threatens NATO's Eastern Flank
On 6 December 2024, in an unprecedented move, Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the results of the first round of its 24 November presidential e...
NATO Review: Colombia at NATO: how a South American nation became a NATO partner, By Oscar Palma
Many Colombians were surprised when the government announced in 2017 that their country was becoming a NATO “global partner”. In a polarised political...
NATO Review: Intelligence disclosure as a strategic messaging tool
On December 3, 2021, the Washington Post published an article referring to unclassified US intelligence reports on massive Russian troop movements, su...
NATO Review: How NATO can advance the Disability, Peace and Security agenda
The United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated every year on December 3rd. This year, the international community is...
NATO Review: Securing Britain’s and NATO’s digital supply chains
In his first press conference following the elections, the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer stressed the UK’s “unshakable” commitm...
NATO Review: Reflections on a decisive decade as NATO Secretary General
As I approach the end of my tenure as NATO Secretary General, I look back at some of the important lessons of the past 10 years that I believe must co...
NATO Review: Sexual harassment and sexual violence in the military
Modern, well-functioning, agile and responsive militaries rely on personnel with an eclectic range of skills and attributes. This, by definition, requ...
NATO Review: Reinforcing resilience: NATO’s role in enhanced security for critical undersea infrastructure
Undersea infrastructure is vital in a global economy powered by data. 99% of the world’s data is transmitted through a global network of subsea cables...
NATO Review: NATO in the democratic arena
NATO is “brain dead.” NATO is “obsolete.” NATO is “a relic of the Cold War.” These are the familiar tropes espoused by NATO’s critics who have become...
NATO Review: Healthier, Cleaner, Greener: A NATO Strategy for the Coming Bio-Revolution
At their February 2024 meeting, Allied Defence Ministers formally adopted NATO’s Biotechnology and Human Enhancement Technologies Strategy. Current NA...
NATO Review: My experience as a gay man in the British Armed Forces and the impact of change
In February 1988, I sat in a plain interrogation room in Portsmouth, England, under arrest. I had been warned that what I said may be used to prosecut...
NATO Review: Russia’s hybrid war against the West
In an article previously published on NATO Review, I explained that the nature of modern warfare is changing at a rapid pace. Consequently, wars are n...
NATO Review: Should artificial intelligence be banned from nuclear weapons systems?
Against a backdrop of conflict and global security concerns, 2023 may prove to have also been a pivotal year for automated nuclear weapons systems. A...
NATO Review: The importance of and outlook for the Czech Republic in NATO
This year we are commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Czech Republic’s accession to NATO, which marked a watershed moment on the path to ensuring...
NATO Review: Loss, defiance, and the fight for justice: the stories of three women from Ukraine, by Dr Olesya...
I asked the receptionist at a Lviv hotel I was staying in if she had any Sellotape I could borrow. I had an important package to deliver, and it was c...
NATO Review: The story of Saint Javelin
In early February 2022, as the drumbeat of war grew louder and louder, I sat glued to my phone, scrolling social media, and starting to build what wou...
NATO Review: Why cognitive superiority is an imperative
Complacency is a lethal error in strategy making and warfare. As Russia has learned in Ukraine, overestimating your own capabilities and underestimati...
NATO Review: Hidden Child: how I survived the Holocaust
During the horror of World War II, many Jewish families in Belgium were forced to hide their children in the hopes that they would avoid detection by...
NATO Review: Don’t fight the future, decide it!
How policy planners can learn from the future to make better decisions now.
“Don’t fight the problem, decide it!” This quote, attributed to for...
NATO Review: Climate change threatens NATO’s readiness and resilience at sea
NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept defines climate change as a “crisis and a threat multiplier”, but what does that actually mean for NATO’s ability to det...
NATO Review: NATO’s China and Indo-Pacific conundrum
The war in Ukraine has underscored the growing geopolitical interdependence between the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions. For one, China has hel...
NATO Review: Turning standard ammunition into sharable ammunition
NATO’s multinational battlegroups need help transitioning verified technical interchangeability into national policies that allow them to operate, tra...
NATO Review: Protecting our critical satellite infrastructure: the importance of space-based infrastructure to humanity, and its status within NATO
Amongst the many vital strategic and security priorities on the agenda at the NATO summit in Vilnius, it was refreshing to see important discussions a...
NATO Review: The urgent imperative to maintain NATO’s nuclear deterrence
The dismal performance of Russia’s conventional forces in the early days of the war in Ukraine risks convincing some in NATO that the future Russian t...
NATO Review: Embracing resilience: representing comrades at the Invictus Games 2023 and advocating for sustainable impact
As the 2023 Invictus Games begin, my heart is filled with a myriad of emotions. The Games provide an opportunity for wounded, injured and sick service...
NATO Review: Logical but unexpected - Witnessing Finland's path to NATO from a close distance
On 4 April 2023, Finland’s Blue Cross Flag was hoisted at NATO Headquarters, marking the nation’s entry into the Alliance. Finland’s formal accession...
NATO Review: Implementing NATO’s Climate Security Agenda: Challenges Ahead
Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine is not the only challenge NATO has to grapple with today. The week preceding the NATO Summit in...
NATO Review: The 2023 NATO Summit in retrospect
The Heads of State and Government of NATO countries convened in Vilnius, Lithuania for a summit that took place on 11 and 12 July. This, unequivocally...
NATO Review: Defence spending: sustaining the effort in the long-term
The issue of the appropriate level of defence spending for each NATO Ally is as old as NATO itself. It touches upon two core debates for the Allies. F...
NATO Review: NATO's engagement in Afghanistan, 2003-2021: a planner’s perspective
This coming summer will mark the twentieth anniversary of the initiation of NATO's engagement in Afghanistan in August 2003, which ended in August 202...
NATO Review: NATO and strategic competition in cyberspace
NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept reaffirmed its commitment to NATO’s founding principles and to its core mission of collective defence and security in a...
NATO Review: The power of information to build resilience in a volatile world
In the face of the “pervasive instability and threat” described by NATO’s Strategic Concept, Allies must do more to strengthen the resilience of our s...
NATO Review: Back to the future: innovating in times of uncertainty and disruption
How do innovators get better at anticipating and preparing for problems in the future? Most innovation efforts focus on problems in the present — ones...
NATO Review: Brothers in arms – a transatlantic transit on the world’s largest warship, by Rob Kunzig
The USS Gerald R. Ford – the US Navy’s newest supercarrier, and the largest and most technologically advanced aircraft carrier in the world – recently...
NATO Review: Western alliances in times of power politics - a review
The return of great power competition is reinvigorating the study of military alliances. In this article, Dr Pilster reviews three remarkable books fr...