The Future of NATO Airpower: How are Future Capability Plans Within the Alliance Diverging and How Can Interoperability be Maintained?

NATO members are pursuing different paths – this poses new challenges for working together as an Alliance.

This Whitehall Paper argues that there is an increasing divergence between the pace and trajectory of airpower capability development in the US and the rest of the NATO Alliance. While the US has held an overwhelming capability lead for decades, the emerging focus on countering Chinese capabilities at scale in the Pacific theatre, coupled with a continuing resource imbalance, is further eroding the ability of other NATO air forces to keep pace. Specifically, this stud

WRITTEN BY

Professor Justin Bronk

Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology

Military Sciences

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