Work needed after NATO floats maritime plan

The alliance has been in dire need of an updated naval plan to tackle a fast-evolving range of threats. Now, 14 years after the last iteration, it has finally delivered.

The updated strategy identifies Russia, China and terrorism as the main dangers, alongside climate change and the challenges brought about by AI and other emerging and disruptive technologies.

Moscow “is reinforcing its conventional and nuclear capabilities, while carrying out increasingly aggressive destabilizing cyber and hybrid actions against the Alliance and its partners,” the document says. At the same time, Beijing’s “confrontational rhetoric, coercive policies and growing assertiveness” are an increasing concern for NATO’s defense.

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