As Russia Ukraine Battle, NATO Scales War Readiness

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By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

NATO countries will now be accelerating steps to increase its multi-national ability to deploy quickly in response to a crisis and massively step up coalition interoperability through common command and control systems. 

Certainly the Russian attack on Ukraine has motivated NATO members to increase defense budgets, forward deploy more forces and heavily emphasize operational connectivity among member nations.

NATO Readiness For War

In a big-picture collective sense, NATO is rapidly evolving into a new status quo, requiring a much more aggressive stance when it comes to forward positioning assets and demonstrating readiness for war along its Eastern Flank.

“There are things that we can do and will do to make sure that it’s a lot easier to rapidly-deploy forces forward. Some of those things include pre-positioning of equipment, putting forces that are at home stations on higher levels of alert, and streamlining command-and-control so that it’s easier to fall in on a formation,” Austin said.

These two things, interoperability and rapid deployment, are inextricably interwoven as they reinforce one another. The more a multi-national force is connected and able to share time-sensitive information in real time using common standards, interfaces or interoperable datalinks, the faster a NATO force can move into position and conduct joint, multi-domain operations.