In modern combat, achieving lethality has become markedly cheaper than ensuring survivability. Precision strike has increasingly overtaken direct attack as the primary means of defeating enemy forces, enabled by the widespread use of sUAS alongside integrated radars, ISR, communications, and weapons systems. Armoured warfare is changing weekly. What was once a landscape that was ready to turn away from armoured fleets has been fundamentally reversed by lessons from RUS/UKR, which have reaffirmed the value of armour for shock, protection, and armoured manoeuvre. National armies are now prioritising the maintenance and longevity of their armoured formations.

More recently, Ukraine’s scaling of remotely controlled interceptor drones, unified UAV control, and cost‑effective approaches to air defence have redefined the economics of warfare. In the current combat environment, integrating traditional armoured manoeuvre with indirect fires and integrated air and missile defence is no longer an option, but a necessity for achieving operational advantage on the battlefield.

The Baltics and wider Eastern European nations continue to progress the Baltic Defence Line and East Shield initiatives, underscoring a collective effort to strengthen integrated land warfare capabilities along NATO’s Eastern Flank. This significant funding commitment of the Baltics underpins their commitment to fortify national borders and significantly enhance ground‑based air defence - capabilities now widely recognised across Eastern Europe as central to contemporary defence and deterrence strategies.

It’s in this capacity that the Land Warfare Europe Conference is returning this November, in official collaboration with the Lithuanian Land Forces at the Epicentre of NATO’s Eastern Flank, to drive integrated land capability, ground-based air defence, and regional deterrence. Through dedicated streams focused on Sense, Command and Targeting; Integrated Fires and Land Force Protection; and Manoeuvre, Survivability and Sustainment, the conference will examine how Eastern Europe to follow new standards for cost-effective air defence, armoured capability, mobility, precision-targeting, and resilient communications.

We will be uniting national armies, NATO commands and agencies, and industry across Eastern Europe over two days of presentations, interactive discussions, and networking.