The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will shift its focus from tanks to drones and artificial intelligence at a summit in Turkey scheduled for July 2026. This is reported by UNN with reference to Bloomberg.
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The main goal of the summit will be to accelerate the transition to Europe as the main guarantor of its security, a program actively promoted by the administration of US President Donald Trump.
At the same time, European diplomats believe that shifting the focus to technology will not ease the pressure on member states to achieve the ambitious spending targets they agreed to last year. Meanwhile, an unnamed American official emphasized the need for combat-ready armed forces, ammunition, a reliable logistics network, and integrated command structures "that operate at scale under stress."
NATO's top military commander, Admiral Pierre Vandier, stated that speed is a key element of modern warfare. Before the Russian-Ukrainian war, the production time for weapons in the alliance was about two decades - now NATO has only a few years to achieve results.
We need a much more flexible and adaptive combination of old equipment and new defense technologies that will allow us to fill the gaps, at least temporarily.