Germany needs to rethink its balance of hard and soft power if it is to reinforce its global role as the conditions for projecting soft power rapidly deteriorate. Since reunification in 1990, Berlin has cultivated …
The publication of three important US strategic policy documents will be a key moment for Europe and the continent’s defence. As the United States refocuses its security priorities, Europe will need to build up its …
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, European leaders have done their utmost to contain the conflict. But now, as Moscow shifts hybrid warfare tactics into NATO territory, European countries’ collective defence posture can …
Russian drones that flew into Poland last week were almost certainly not there by accident. This was a probe of NATO’s defences, another example of how coercive revisionist powers escalate within the grey-zone spectrum to …
What does it mean to be a professional futurist, and what does it take to be a good one? For Florence Gaub, research director of NATO’s Defense College, it’s not about predicting the future, but …




