NATO’s new plans will not only keep armies on their toes, but also set priorities for procurement and investment
Despite all this, it is the planned overhaul of’s military machinery that is the most consequential item on the agenda. The architect of the defence reforms is Chris Cavoli, an American general who serves as Supreme Allied Commander Europe . His job was first held by Dwight Eisenhower—whose globe still sits in General Cavoli’s office in the Belgian city of Mons.
summit in Madrid the allies agreed they would collectively keep over 100,000 troops ready to deploy in fewer than ten days, and another 200,000 on a month’s readiness—a far larger number of high-readiness troops than before. Just as important is that allies will now “declare” to General Cavoli which units are available at any time.
This list largely reflects needs that have been identified while observing the war in Ukraine: old-fashioned artillery has inflicted the majority of casualties; manoeuvring without armour has proven extremely costly. The problem is that the majority of European armies fare woefully on most of these measures .
The new reforms are profoundly shaped by the way the alliance’s membership has changed over the past thirty years. In 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall,’s border with the Warsaw Pact was essentially the inner-German border—1,380km in length, almost all of it heavily militarised—plus a small stretch in northern Norway. By 2004, when the Baltic states joined, its border with Russia was only 800km long. But when Finland joined on April 4th this year, that more than doubled at a stroke .
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