{"id":599336,"date":"2026-05-23T06:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599336\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:10:36","slug":"uk-wargames-ai-driven-nato-conflict-with-russia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599336\/","title":{"rendered":"UK wargames AI-driven NATO conflict with Russia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI-driven warfare<\/p>\n<p>The ARRCADE STRIKE exercise included hundreds of personnel from Britain, France, Italy and the U.S. to test the ability to plan a potential future operation involving up to 100,000 people, as well as the use of AI-driven targeting and planning for electromagnetic and drone warfare.<\/p>\n<p>AI-driven tools such as ASGARD \u2014 made in collaboration with private sector companies including American tech giant Palantir \u2014 will be used in order to speed up decision-making on the battlefield. These tools allow for weapons to be automatically assigned to targets to make sure expensive ammunition isn&#8217;t wasted on enemy drones, and to counter Russia\u2019s own adoption of AI in warfare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>General Alexus Grynkewich, supreme allied commander Europe, described ARRC as \u201cessential for our NATO plans\u201d and that it will draw upon \u201cthe lessons learned from Ukraine and Operation Epic Fury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure to learn, adapt, and apply the lessons we observe on the modern battlefield, and failure to do this faster than our adversaries puts both our deterrence posture and our defense plans at risk,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The preparation comes as part of NATO and the EU\u2019s attempts to ramp up defense spending and war readiness by 2030 amid the increased threat from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>General Chris Donahue, commander of NATO Land Command, said: \u201cMission ready by 2030 is not a slogan, it is what we must do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI-driven warfare The ARRCADE STRIKE exercise included hundreds of personnel from Britain, France, Italy and the U.S. to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[733,68095,59,57,58,151,44955,50,154,56,54,55,636],"class_list":["post-599336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-estonia","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-military","tag-military-exercises","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}