What the Alliance needs is a combat network architecture that is able to learn, produce, and update faster, rendering gray-zone pressure below the Article 5 threshold obsolete. The defense aspect of the Ankara Summit will take shape in this domain.06 July 2026
The grammar of military science is unforgiving. Defense architectures built on European autonomy assumptions and that sideline Türkiye or non-EU NATO nations are doomed to fail: they will neither deter threats to Europe nor prevail a war.23 April 2026
