NATO Commander Calls on Industry To Militarize

U.S. Air Force Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s new commander, is demanding that industry step up to the militarization of Europe. “We can tell industry exactly what it is that we need for all the leaders that are out there. It’s our job, I think, to hold industry accountable to deliver quickly and to hold ourselves accountable for giving industry the ability to deliver quickly through our acquisition processes,” he said July 17 during a public speech at the Association of the U.S. Army’s inaugural LandEuro conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, reported Defense News. “We’ve got to do this fast. We need real capabilities and we need them delivered as soon as possible. We can’t afford to wait, future pledges are no longer enough,” he said. “To do this, the defense industrial base on both sides of the Atlantic is going to have to become fully activated.”