On 11–12 June, the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), in partnership with NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT), organised a high-level, closed-door seminar entitled “Strategy X,” dedicated to the Alliance’s long-term strategic outlook and its articulation with Allies’ national security strategies. Structured around dynamic plenary sessions and dynamic breakout working groups, the two-day meeting aimed to produce concrete policy proposal for the Alliance’s future strategy and orientation. The seminar fostered a substantive exchange on the contours of this emerging defense framework.
Dr. Lazarou was among approximately thirty leading European experts invited to contribute to the discussions on the future of European security and NATO’s evolving strategic role. In her contributions, she discussed EU-NATO cooperation, foresight, and the need to address challenges in the southern neighbourhood. The sessions addressed key questions regarding Europe’s capacity to assume greater responsibility within the Alliance, the need to strengthen coordination across instruments of power, and the challenge of developing a more coherent and forward-looking strategic process at NATO level. The workshop served as a space for reflection and brainstorming on the Future Force Study (FSS), a multi-year analysis which will be designed to map out the force structures and military assets NATO will require by 2035 and beyond. ACT’ s ongoing strategic reflection on the FFS “blends foresight, wargaming, modelling and simulation to generate evidence-based force design options that inform NATO’s strategic planning and capability development” and will aim to bridge the gap between long-term vision and actionable defence planning, moving NATO from foresight to warfight and informing the NATO defence planning process.
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