NATO needs ‘warfighting transformation’, top military official says

A top NATO military official called on public and private actors in the West on Wednesday to prepare for an era in which anything could happen at any time, including fighting a war.
“We need a warfighting transformation of NATO,” the chief of the alliance’s Military Committee, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, said as he opened a two-day meeting of national defence chiefs in Brussels.
He noted that in the past, NATO governments and companies lived in an era in which everything was plentiful, foreseeable, controllable, and focused on efficiency.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, they should adjust their thinking to “an era in which anything can happen at any time, an era in which we need to expect the unexpected, an era in which we need to focus on effectiveness in order to be fully effective”, he said.
His remarks come at a time when military aid is either held up or limited by political wrangling in the United States and the European Union.
Bauer pledged NATO’s continued help for Ukraine.