Still, any new measures \u201cneed to have plausible deniability,\u201d said one EU diplomat.<\/p>\n
Show of force<\/p>\n
NATO, for its part, is a defensive organization and so is leery of offensive operations. \u201cAsymmetric responses are an important part of the conversation,\u201d said one NATO diplomat, but \u201cwe aren\u2019t going to stoop to the same tactics as Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead, the alliance should prioritize shows of force that illustrate strength and unity, said Oana Lungescu, a former NATO spokesperson and fellow with London’s Royal United Services Institute think tank. In practice, that means rapidly announcing whether Moscow is behind a hybrid attack and running \u2018no-notice\u2019 military exercises on the Russian border with Lithuania or Estonia.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the NATO-backed Centre of Excellence on Hybrid Threats in Helsinki, which brings together allied officials, is also \u201cproviding expertise and training\u201d and drafting \u201cpolicies to counter those threats,\u201d said Maarten ten Wolde, a senior analyst at the organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cUndoubtedly, more should be done on hybrid,\u201d said one senior NATO diplomat, including increasing collective attribution after attacks and making sure to \u201cshow through various means that we pay attention and can shift assets around in a flexible way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacopo Barigazzi, Nicholas Vinocur, Nette N\u00f6stlinger, Antoaneta Roussi and Seb Starvecic contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still, any new measures \u201cneed to have plausible deniability,\u201d said one EU diplomat. Show of force NATO, for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2594,4328,18992,1942,1789,10836,6215,3032,473,365,2595,35,1112,2000,299,5187,7058,805,36,81466,31865,6084,2817,2818,2596,660,2597,104313,770,7697,14792,332,2663,34589,811,1199,2824,657,15,771,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-596379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-airports","10":"tag-airspace","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-belgium","13":"tag-cargo","14":"tag-cooperation","15":"tag-czech-republic","16":"tag-defense","17":"tag-denmark","18":"tag-drones","19":"tag-energy","20":"tag-estonia","21":"tag-eu","22":"tag-europe","23":"tag-european","24":"tag-european-defense","25":"tag-foreign-policy","26":"tag-france","27":"tag-guido-crosetto","28":"tag-hybrid-threats","29":"tag-infrastructure","30":"tag-intelligence","31":"tag-intelligence-services","32":"tag-kaja-kallas","33":"tag-kremlin","34":"tag-military","35":"tag-military-exercises","36":"tag-poland","37":"tag-ports","38":"tag-radoslaw-sikorski","39":"tag-russia","40":"tag-sanctions","41":"tag-schengen-area","42":"tag-security","43":"tag-services","44":"tag-tanks","45":"tag-ukraine","46":"tag-united-kingdom","47":"tag-war","48":"tag-war-in-ukraine","49":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}