NATO military commander declares alliance is battle ready

​NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, General Alexus Grynkewich has warned against immoderate aggression targeting subordinate states, declaring that the confederation is acceptable for combat.

“If attacked, we are acceptable to combat tonight,” the American wide ​stated connected Monday successful Poland.

“We cognize however we volition combat if a combat comes to us. And we cognize we volition win,” helium said.

Speaking astatine the 2026 Warsaw Security Forum, Grynkewich defined his “theory of victory” arsenic blocking the archetypal onslaught and ​if it persists, “blunt it and forestall force advance.”

The subject main said NATO was not trying to enforce a “strategic defeat” connected its adversary, but ​was seeking to halt a imaginable assault, interruption the enemy’s forces​ and operational warfighting system, and contradict its quality to prehend immoderate territory.

Moscow has repeatedly accused Europe of moving to inflict a “strategic defeat” connected Russia utilizing tactics specified arsenic sanctions packages,​ portion prodding countries extracurricular the continent to enforce akin punitive measures.

​At the Warsaw​ summit, NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska, ​Lithuanian ​Defence ​Minister​ Robertas Kaunas, and Polish Secretary of State ​(Defence Ministry​) Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka discussed a stronger European military.

Noting that gathering stro...