The theme of Land Warfare Conference 2021 was ‘Integrating for Operations Today and Warfighting Tomorrow’
On 2 June 2021, 180 delegates from the land forces community came together at Church House, Westminster, with 8,000 colleagues online from 46 countries, to discuss future capability priorities, emerging threats, interoperability and the land industrial strategy. The theme of the conference, Integrating for Operations Today and Warfighting Tomorrow, spoke to three critical challenges that the delegates examined:
- How can armies be widely deployed to develop influence and deter aggression while retaining readiness for warfighting?
- How can armies maintain a coherent force structure while transitioning from the legacy platforms of mechanised warfare to the future platforms of digitised warfare?
- How can allies ensure interoperability, and the ability to integrate their platforms and formations, as they pursue technological advantage
Views on these questions differ within NATO, and Land Warfare Conference provided an opportunity for a free and frank dialogue amid the coronavirus pandemic.
WRITTEN BY
Dr Jack Watling
Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare
Military Sciences
