NATO innovation chief: Alliance must speed up, or risk Russian invasion

Deterring a Russian attack depends not just on NATO’s military forces, but on proof that alliance members can bring new technology to the fight as quickly as Moscow, Adm. Pierre Vandier, who leads NATO’s Allied Transformation Command, said Tuesday in Washington.

Vandier, like other military leaders and operators, said Ukrainian forces have illustrated the value of not just buying new technology, but continuously reinventing it at the front lines. 

But, he said, Russia has learned the same lesson and is also continuously adapting across areas like space-based imagery, mission command, and, of course, drones. 

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