Ukraine has become a driving force behind changes in modern warfare, military training, and defense technology development. The war in Ukraine has become NATO's most important military "learning" process in the past 30 years.
Alper Ozbilen, a senior Turkish expert and strategist in defense technologies, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity, stated in an interview with Ukrinform.
"Ukraine has initiated – and continues to shape – the direction of these changes [in warfare, military training, and defense technology development]. I regard the war in Ukraine as NATO's most significant military learning experience of the past 30 years," he said.
According to him, this is the first high-intensity war in which conventional weapons, artificial intelligence, unmanned systems, commercial space technologies, electronic warfare capabilities, and open-source intelligence (OSINT) are being employed simultaneously and on such a large scale.
"Many NATO countries are already revising their military training programs, ammunition stockpiling strategies, electronic warfare capabilities, air defense architectures, and doctrines governing the employment of unmanned systems, drawing directly on the practical lessons Ukraine has generated on the battlefield," Ozbilen said.
