Defense alliance is a partnership among nations to provide mutual security and military support against threats from outside. These alliances enhance military cooperation through joint training exercises, intelligence sharing, and coordinating defence strategies, allowing member nations to pool resources and capabilities. Evaluate how technological advances have impacted the effectiveness of Collective Defense Alliances since 1914.
In the face of the gravest threat to NATO security in decades, Allies are strengthening their deterrence and defence posture with a balanced mix of nuclear, conventional and missile defence capabilities, complemented by space and cyber capabilities. They are addressing Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and its attempts to fundamentally reconfigure the Euro-Atlantic security architecture. This includes airspace violations, provocative activities at Allied borders, instrumentalisation of irregular migration, malign cyber activity, disinformation campaigns and strategic coercion.
Allies also are enhancing their resilience by improving their ability to respond to and recover from the full range of threats, hazards and risks. This requires strong civilian-military coordination and the development of robust capabilities for crisis response, contingency planning and rapid reinforcement. NATO has developed a set of guidelines to help national authorities develop and implement resilience-building initiatives. These include seven baseline requirements:
At the 2022 Madrid and 2023 Vilnius Summits, Allies built on this foundation, agreeing significant measures to strengthen NATO’s deterrence and defence in all domains and across the spectrum of conflict. This includes deploying four multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania in addition to those already present in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on the Alliance’s eastern flank. It also includes boosting the Alliance’s air defence capability, including through modernising existing assets and increasing deployment of new technologies. The Alliance also agreed a new Defence Production Action Plan to bolster engagement with the defence industry, accelerate joint procurement and boost production capacity.