Alliance Warfare Development Conference 2025 Advances Speed, Agility, and Continuous Adaptation

The EOD COE Chief of Staff, Colonel Zsolt Szilagyi participated in the NATO’s 202 Alliance Warfare Development Conference, held December 8th to 10th 2024, in Norfolk, Virginia.

Senior defence leaders, national capability directors and decision-makers from NATO countries gathered in Norfolk this week for the 2025 Alliance Warfare Development Conference. This annual forum focuses on how NATO can prepare its forces at a pace that matches rapid changes in technology and geopolitics. The conference recognized that the strategic environment no longer tolerates slow cycles of analysis and delivery. Modern challenges move too quickly, and the Alliance continues to work hard to match that momentum and remain effective.

By the end of the conference, a clear direction emerged. The Alliance must act at the pace the environment demands and cultivate the mental agility to adapt just as quickly. These two principles, speed as a strategic requirement and adaptation as a daily behaviour, form the foundation of modern warfare development. The 2025 Alliance Warfare Development Conference reinforced that Allied Command Transformation will continue to guide this effort, ensuring that NATO remains ready to think, decide, and deliver with the momentum needed for a rapidly changing world.

“NATO should be about results, not about process; working from idea to implementation. Working not for process but for the warfighter.”

– Admiral Pierre Vandier
Supreme Allied Commander Transformation

Text: Colonel Zsolt Szilagyi (HUN-A)