|Stephen Bryen at the Center for Security Policy notes: "Today [[NATO]] is poorly equipped to deal with drone swarms or even defend against medium and long range missiles. Some of this is due to misdirected spending, where air defenses have been neglected or focused mainly on strategic nuclear threats. But even here, air defense coverage in Europe is far from adequate. Worse than that, what air defenses there are in NATO are not networked and not optimized to sort out threats and deal with the most lethal.<ref>[https://weapons.substack.com/p/is-nato-learning-about-its-future Is NATO Learning About Its Future in Ukraine? With Ukraine faltering, NATO needs to learn some lessons], STEPHEN BRYEN, ''Weapons and Strategy'', SEP 6, 2023.</ref> | |Stephen Bryen at the Center for Security Policy notes: "Today [[NATO]] is poorly equipped to deal with drone swarms or even defend against medium and long range missiles. Some of this is due to misdirected spending, where air defenses have been neglected or focused mainly on strategic nuclear threats. But even here, air defense coverage in Europe is far from adequate. Worse than that, what air defenses there are in NATO are not networked and not optimized to sort out threats and deal with the most lethal.<ref>[https://weapons.substack.com/p/is-nato-learning-about-its-future Is NATO Learning About Its Future in Ukraine? With Ukraine faltering, NATO needs to learn some lessons], STEPHEN BRYEN, ''Weapons and Strategy'', SEP 6, 2023.</ref> |