Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has called on NATO to modernise its structures in order to make itself faster at dealing with current and future threats, such as terrorism and cyber.
Attending the annual Munich Security Conference, Sir Michael said the Alliance should not wait for another crisis before it modernises itself.Calling for an ambitious programme of change, the Defence Secretary outlined three areas for a fitter, faster, more agile NATO:
Greater flexibility for NATO’s top commanders, including the power to move more staff resources around to meet current and future threats.Less duplication – the Alliance has five financial control centres. Increased coherence – Sir Michael outlined that while improvements were being made, particularly in the merging of intelligence structures, more needed to be done to break down silos.
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