# NATO taps Ukraine as red-team in drills to ‘trigger an adaptation cycle’

- Source: Breaking Defense
- Published: 2026-11-11T17:17:05+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://breakingdefense.com/2026/11/nato-taps-ukraine-as-red-team-in-drills-to-trigger-an-adaptation-cycle/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/nato-taps-ukraine-as-red-team-in-drills-to-trigger-an-adaptation-cycle-607c4a/

“What we’ve done so far, we took some experience from Ukraine, for example, where we hid some Ukrainian forces and Ukrainian-made USVs, and made them the red team against the blue force of NATO,” Adm. Pierre Vander told Breaking Defense.

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