Ukraine War Exposes Europe's Air Defense Gap, Alta Ares CEO Says

Hadrien arrived in Ukraine in the first week of March 2022, a week after the full-scale invasion. What he saw was a kind of war NATO had forgotten how to fight: “a high and long intensity warfare,” not the small expeditionary operations in Africa and the Middle East where the West always owned the air. For the first time in modern European history, he argues, “Ukraine, but also NATO, doesn’t have the upper hand on the air superiority.” Read more on @airstreetpress from @raais 2026