An assessment of NATO readiness and exercise design under simultaneous hybrid, cyber and military pressure, focusing on command continuity, movement, sustainment and the limits of publicly available performance evidence.
Centre-2026 provides evidence that Russia is moving beyond battlefield adaptation toward the institutionalization of lessons developed during more than four years of war in Ukraine. The exercise integrated unmanned systems, counter-UAS defence, reconnaissance-fire coordination, contested logistics, robotic platforms and small-unit tactical adaptation into strategic-level training and multinational exercises. The evidence supports a judgment of partial…