Various armies of NATO allies, integrating regional commands into a more agile network. It’s about making the Atlantic Alliance’s response stronger and faster. “day zero” of an attack One of the members of the organization.
With the evolution of the war in Ukraine, studies that are now going through the cross-reporting phase are developing. One of the missions of the Madrid Summit. In his latest annual report, published at the end of March, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says it’s about allies “strengthening their command, control and coordination mechanisms”.
This month he puts it into words in the form of a question. Skip Gordon G. Davisone of the experts think tank Atlantic Councilin a report on the coordination successes and shortcomings of the allied commands: in the event of Russian aggression against a member state similar to that of Ukraine, “Can NATO respond with the speed, scale and consistency needed to prevent the initial success of the attack?”
Or what does it mean if coordinated commanders can act quickly with the necessary agility—knowing where, against what, and for what to defend? 300,000 soldiers from the Reaction Force (multiplied by 8 at the Madrid summit) that the Alliance plans to deploy between day 0 and day 10 of a hypothetical conflict.
No leader suffers the imprudence of formally signaling. candidates to be attacked If the Ukrainian war spreads. “Just look at where NATO’s deterrence and surveillance missions are currently conducted in Europe,” one of the Spanish military sources told this newspaper on the same April 5th, when Finland joined the Treaty. made a clear allusion Baltic countries.
NATO personnel to improve “zero-day” response capability, military jargon calls C4ISR. It stands for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. I wanted to say, the “nervous system” of every army. That’s what Davis calls it in his study, which was presented at a special event of the Atlantic Council on March 23.
civil endurance
And artificial intelligence is used in the development of C4ISR. Algorithm is fighting in Ukraine. In fact, the most crowded and silent battalion of the war is the Data battalion.
The invasion of Ukraine led to many notes being taken by senior Western officers who were the architects of NATO’s command structures. Military sources consulted confirm this business as a permanent line. They believe the trope of the military’s “nervous system” is true, but they take it beyond just the military: the ability to respond in a zero-day, the protection of their critical infrastructure affects the entire country. Most of these infrastructures are intangible, digital, for example; The hacked archives of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.
In NATO, there is talk of strengthening the “cybernetic resilience” of civilian structures in light of lessons learned in the days before the Russian invasion and also in Ukraine, where the country was subjected to a massive computer attack after 2-24-22. it broke down the police networks and the healthcare system, among others.
But Ukraine has not only been a testing ground for such attacks by Russia. The Atlantic Council report highlights, based on accumulated data, how effective the C4ISR, supported by British military engineers of the Ukrainian army, was in its own attacks against Russian forces with another weapon. called ARTA GIS, and is an app somewhat similar to the one on the Uber platform. It collects information from GPS locators and various open sources that are integrated. A targeting system for artillery. For Russian command posts with tanks, ammunition silos, batteries and generals, the combination of GIS ARTA with artillery and rocket launchers used by Ukraine was fatal.
How effective is the aggregation of data from all kinds of sources, says the author. The massacre of a hundred Russian soldiers last New Year’s Eve Converted to headquarters in a building in Makiivka (Donetsk). They were detected by the artillery algorithm as soon as they used their cell phones to call Russia to celebrate their family’s new year.
engineers wanted
Whether Spain has a similar program for direct fire in a possible conflict is a military secret. However, it is not true that as a result of the Ukrainian experience, NATO is working on new computer tools for target designation and counting (as well as for foreign casualties on the ground and in the air force). Intelligence Fusion CenterAt the British Molesworth airbase, another task of the Madrid summit, whose importance was not appreciated at the time, it was overshadowed by the more striking political aspects of that assembly.
A significant portion of the new Defense budget that the Sánchez government has decided to increase will go to the world of military computing, but this will also require civilian participation. According to summit agreements, allies must periodically present to others how they have improved not only military but also cybersecurity. defense of communication and transportation data, healthcare system and banking network of every country. In this, there are more than 82,000 events that each year employ the National Cryptology Center under the CNI.
However, one referenced source sarcastically recalls, “Day 0 is just as important as a minus day.” Talk about deterrence. The ability to react to an outside attack would not have to be put to the test if that attack was previously made inculcatable through the endless mix of diplomacy and military might. As stated in the Madrid Strategic Concept, “Reject any possibility of aggression from any potential enemy”.
The Atlantic Council said NATO still does not have large numbers of trained personnel for this. Translated into Spanish by the same last source quoted: “In the coming years Defense will need lots of engineersAnd we don’t know where to find them.”