NATO military operations must be multi-vector and synchronized with non-military instruments of power.
Anne Marie Daly, a non-resident fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, writes for the Atlantic Council.
If NATO were to deal with a conflict like the one in Ukraine, the Armed Forces would expect to face threats on land, sea, air, space and cyberspace . More and more often, militaries are recognizing that to achieve effect in a combat situation, they need to use the capabilities of several areas simultaneously.
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At the same time, non-military technologies are bringing significant changes to the situation on the battlefield. For example, the number of sensors has increased, and civilian space-based assets are rapidly developing. Cyber communications have become essential for military operations, but the technology has also made civilian infrastructure more vulnerable to attack.
“To adapt to these changes, NATO is developing a multi-domain warfare concept. But for this concept to be successful, it must contain a plan to manage the growing dependence of military operations on and interaction with non-military instruments of power, the material says.
It was noted that NATO military operations must be multi-domain and built on a solid foundation of synchronization with non-military instruments of power.
Achieving this goal will require immediate steps to improve coordination with non-military agencies in government and the private sector. It will also require a more coherent approach to incorporating these elements into NATO's long-term planning processes—in effect, treating non-military instruments of power as a sixth domain.
Earlier, ex-NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen proposed joining Ukraine to the Alliance without territories occupied by Russia.
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