Articles 

The Black Sea is no longer a peripheral theater. It has become one of NATO’s most strategically volatile confrontation zones, a place where geography, hybrid warfare, and Russia’s militarized revisionism converge to shape the Alliance’s security priorities. What happens in this region will determine the credibility of NATO’s deterrence posture across the entire Eastern Flank.

To remain the most successful military Alliance in history, NATO must confront five hard truths.