Identifying the right capabilities is only part of the challenge for NATO. Just as important is ensuring those capabilities can be delivered quickly, integrated smoothly, and employed effectively.
Force Lethality Enhancement eXtended (FLEX), led by NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT), focuses on helping Allies meet that challenge.
It builds on the earlier Force Lethality Enhancement (FLE) effort by helping Allies find faster, more practical ways to deliver military effects and strengthen deterrence and defence.
In this episode of The Transformation Brief, we examine how FLEX helps Allies move from capability requirements to real-world effect faster.
26 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
Audacious Training
The conditions shaping future conflict are shifting quickly, and they rarely stay stable for long. The pace of change in conflict is now part of the challenge NATO has to train for. Audacious Training is NATO’s answer to that challenge: a joint initiative that helps the Alliance train in a way that is more realistic, more adaptive, and better connected to how modern conflict actually unfolds.In this episode of Transformation Brief, Barnaby Jones, Deputy Branch Head, Exercise Coordination and Alignment, discusses Audacious Training and how NATO is making exercises more realistic and adaptive for modern conflict.
30 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Ukraine’s Battlefield Experience is Shaping NATO’s Thinking
NATO supports Ukraine and continues to deepen a partnership built through more than three decades of cooperation with NATO Allies. Allies are supporting Ukraine’s ability to defend itself against Russia’s aggression, including through unprecedented military assistance. This partnership strengthens Ukraine’s security and contributes to a stronger Alliance.Russia’s full-scale war of aggression has highlighted the realities of modern conflict and the speed at which forces must adapt, from rapid decision-making and resilience to secure connectivity across land, sea, air, cyber, and space. It reinforces why NATO must keep transforming for tomorrow’s security environment, strengthening deterrence and defence while continuing to stand with Ukraine in its existential struggle.In this episode of Transformation Brief, Colonel Valerii Vyshnivskyi, Senior Ukrainian Representative at the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre, shares how Ukraine’s battlefield experience is shaping NATO’s thinking, with adaptation speed, interoperability, and civil-military innovation proving decisive in modern war.
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FLEX: Force Lethality Enhancement eXtended
Published 9 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But what has changed is how quickly, the speed with which we have to change, the speed with which we have to adapt. Advantage is fundamental. It always has been in warfare, but the pursuit of advantage is fundamental. And the way that things are changing with technology, with new approaches to warfighting, the character of warfare is changing. We have to get ahead of that. And so it's the speed with which we have to move forward. Okay, so let's talk about forced lethality enhancement more broadly, and then we can zoom in on flex. And we've heard this line a lot that we don't want to use a million dollar missile to shoot down a thousand dollar drone. […]
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