Nato learns as Ukraine's 'creativity' changes battlefield

UKRAINE'S “creativity”, including its massive “Spider’s web” drone attack deep inside Russia, holds profound lessons for Western militaries, the top Nato commander overseeing battlefield innovation said.

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“What the Ukrainians did in Russia was a Trojan horse and the trojan horse was thousands of years ago,” French Admiral Pierre Vandier, Nato’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, said in an interview.

“Today, we see this kind of tactic being reinvented by technical and industrial creativity.”

Vandier said the operation showed how crucial innovation and adaptation were for victory, as modern warfare changes at lightning speed.

“It was a real coup.”

“We are entering a dynamic era where armies must rely on both major planning but also adaptive planning,” the navy commander said.

“We will witness continuous innovation where, week by week, month by month or year by year, we will be able to invent things we hadn‘t anticipated”