From Manoeuvre to Positional Warfare: What Ukraine Has Taught NATO with Colonel Pieter Soldaat

Colonel Pieter Soldaat, a Dutch tactician and historian leading NATO’s Ukraine lessons learned desk, examines how Russia’s invasion has fundamentally transformed modern land warfare, covering the rise of positional warfare, drone combat as a new domain, shifts in small unit tactics, and the growing threat of tunnel warfare in urban environments.

He also explores how commercial technologies like Starlink and the daily contest for the electromagnetic spectrum are reshaping battlefield communications, and how NATO is disseminating these lessons through specialist centres to redefine how alliance nations approach future land operations.