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At the Warsaw Security Forum, Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Alexus Grynkewich delivered a direct message to the Kremlin: NATO has an operational "Theory of Victory" to defeat any Russian attack in three distinct stages: Block, Blunt, and Break. From forward-deployed brigades in Finland and Estonia to the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative's AI "kill web" and plans for the rapid neutralization of Kaliningrad, discover how NATO is learning the brutal lessons of the war in Ukraine to prepare for high-intensity, peer-level conflict.
⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Introduction: General Alexus Grynkewich's Warsaw Warning
01:55 - Stage One: "Block" — Forward Land Forces & Border Fortification
05:48 - Stage Two: "Blunt" — Eastern Flank Deterrence & Sensor Kill Webs
09:57 - Stage Three: "Break" — Dismantling the Russian War Machine & Kaliningrad
13:07 - Deterrence by Denial: Halting Advances Without Seeking Strategic Defeat
14:03 - The Tonal Shift: Countering Gray-Zone Hybrid Probes & Article 5 Tests
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At the Warsaw Security Forum, Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Alexus Grynkewich delivered a direct message to the Kremlin: NATO has an operational "Theory of Victory" to defeat any Russian attack in three distinct stages: Block, Blunt, and Break. From forward-deployed brigades in Finland and Estonia to the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative's AI "kill web" and plans for the rapid neutralization of Kaliningrad, discover how NATO is learning the brutal lessons of the war in Ukraine to prepare for high-intensity, peer-level conflict.
⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Introduction: General Alexus Grynkewich's Warsaw Warning
01:55 - Stage One: "Block" — Forward Land Forces & Border Fortification
05:48 - Stage Two: "Blunt" — Eastern Flank Deterrence & Sensor Kill Webs
09:57 - Stage Three: "Break" — Dismantling the Russian War Machine & Kaliningrad
13:07 - Deterrence by Denial: Halting Advances Without Seeking Strategic Defeat
14:03 - The Tonal Shift: Countering Gray-Zone Hybrid Probes & Article 5 Tests
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00:01At the Warsaw Security Forum, a leading NATO general takes to the podium.
00:05He speaks clearly into the microphone to deliver a warning to Russia.
00:10NATO has a theory of victory.
00:13If Putin were ever stupid enough to attempt an invasion of NATO's soil,
00:17that plan would be put into place, and it would ruin whatever Russia is trying to achieve.
00:21This isn't some vague statement that NATO will respond to Russian aggression.
00:25What we're seeing is one of NATO's top military commanders telling the Kremlin
00:29that a war with NATO will lead to the total and utter defeat of Russia.
00:33The theory of victory has three stages.
00:36But before we dig deeper, the general in question is Alexis Grinkovich,
00:41who has served as commander of US European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe since 2025.
00:49A US Air Force veteran who has logged over 2,300 flight hours,
00:53Grinkovich is better positioned than almost anybody to know what NATO brings to the table in a fight against Russia.
00:59And what NATO brings is pain.
01:02My theory of victory is simple.
01:03We will block the initial attack, Grinkovich declared during his speech in Poland.
01:08He then added,
01:09If the attack persists, we will blunt it and prevent enemy advance.
01:12And if required, we will break the enemy's forces and the operational warfighting system that is arrayed against us.
01:19Simple, brutal and devastating.
01:21Three steps to victory have been outlined and we're about to dig into all of them.
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01:34Now, Grinkovich didn't reveal too many of the details about his theory of victory.
01:38Doing so would make little sense, especially as the element of surprise is such a valuable asset in any warfighting
01:44scenario.
01:45But he dropped some teasers about the assets that NATO would use to make this theory a reality.
01:50And from there, we can extrapolate a little to see whether NATO actually has what it needs in place to
01:55pull off the general's plan.
01:56We start with stage one.
01:58Block the Russian advance.
02:00Under this part of the plan, NATO would focus on the use of land-based troops to serve as a
02:05barrier to whatever force Russia tries to send into NATO territory.
02:09Supported by air, cyber, naval and even space capabilities, those land soldiers would be the first line of defense.
02:16Their goal is to stop Russia from seizing any territory.
02:19If Russia is able to claim patches of territory on NATO's soil, it has the potential to create fortifications and
02:25launching pads for future assaults.
02:27So stage one is about stopping Russia from attacking with anything close to its full force from the moment that
02:32an invasion is launched.
02:34Of course, for this stage of the plan to work, NATO needs to have land-based troops located in the
02:39right places.
02:40Over the last few months, we've seen moves being made that we now believe are in service of Grinkovich's theory
02:45of victory.
02:46Those moves typically amount to NATO allies stationing soldiers on their borders with Russia, Belarus and the Russian exclave of
02:53Kaliningrad.
02:54And there are plenty of examples.
02:56Back in June, the Barents Observer revealed that NATO had officially launched its Forward Land Forces, or FLF, Finland.
03:03Unveiled on June 6th, FLF Finland has been created to defend Finland's northern region, and it brings Nordic troops together
03:09to do just that.
03:10Chief among those troops is a battalion from Sweden's Norrbotten Regiment, which will be leading the combined force of FLF
03:17Finland.
03:17However, the force itself will be placed under the direct command of NATO.
03:22Denmark, France, Italy, Iceland and the UK have also announced they will participate in the development of this front-facing
03:28force.
03:28There's more. A lot more.
03:30About a month later, the Insider reported that Poland has created a new military formation that it will use to
03:36protect the borders that it shares with Belarus and Kaliningrad.
03:39Named the Border Protection Component, this new formation will comprise four brigades, which are tasked with carrying out reconnaissance, supporting
03:47existing border protection,
03:49and, if the time comes, responding to incoming threats.
03:52This move was made in the wake of Poland deploying 40,000 soldiers to its borders ahead of the ZAPAD
03:582025 joint military exercises held by Russia and Belarus.
04:02Over in the Baltic region, both Lithuania and Estonia have been doing similar things.
04:07On October 5th, Pravda reported that Estonia has relocated a key brigade from the city of Tapa to Juve, bringing
04:13those soldiers about 50km from the border that Estonia shares with Russia.
04:17Estonia is also building a new base in Narva that will be capable of housing 1,000 soldiers.
04:23As for Lithuania, it announced that it was deploying soldiers to reinforce its border with Kaliningrad,
04:28following concerns over Russian military mobilisation and the hybrid warfare that Russia has intensified in recent months.
04:35It's not a huge deployment. Around 100 soldiers will be sent to the border by the end of October.
04:39But once again, we see a pattern of NATO allies sending their soldiers to the borders they share with Russia
04:45and its main ally.
04:46All of this brings us back to stage one of Grinkovich's plan.
04:50It's likely no coincidence that these and other troop movements are being made.
04:54The thousands of soldiers being positioned in key border locations may well be that first blocking force that the NATO
04:59general says would stop Russia in its tracks.
05:02The support that they will receive will likely come from fighter jets attacking Russian positions in the rear,
05:07electronic warfare to disrupt Russian weapons and command nodes,
05:10and most likely naval firepower emanating from the Baltic Sea.
05:14A combined force to stop a Russian advance.
05:17And as the blocking begins, NATO would also be moving troops to the borders to back up those who face
05:21the first wave of the Russian attack.
05:23In an ideal world, that would be enough to send Putin's forces packing.
05:27Blocking the initial invasion would show Putin that NATO isn't going to allow Russia to march into its territory before
05:33NATO responds.
05:34But let's say that blocking doesn't work in terms of ensuring that the Kremlin gets the message that it will
05:39experience no easy wins.
05:41Russia's soldiers keep on trying to push against the blockade as the Kremlin hopes that NATO crumbles.
05:47It's here that stage two of the theory of victory comes into play.
05:51Blunting the Russian forces.
05:53According to Grinkovic, NATO would blunt the Russian attack by using a series of sensors and autonomous systems
05:59to overwhelm enemy formations and their advance, Politico reports.
06:04To us, that sounds like NATO has been learning lessons from Ukraine.
06:07And if there's one thing that the war in Ukraine has taught the world,
06:11it's that a solid drone strategy is incredibly effective when it comes to blunting Russia's attacks.
06:16Russia managing to capture only 890 square kilometers of Ukraine in 2026 in return for 270,000 losses as of
06:24September 23rd is proof of that.
06:26Those numbers come from Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
06:29and they demonstrate how following Ukraine's blueprint can help NATO make a Russian attack far less effective.
06:35Does NATO have the capability to do what Grinkovic says it will do?
06:39Just like we see with the troop relocations, moves are being made that suggest that NATO has been preparing to
06:45execute the theory of victory for a while.
06:48For instance, July saw NATO announce that it's going to create a surveillance system
06:52that stretches across its entire eastern flank from Finland to Romania.
06:57Using a combination of AI, satellites and drones,
07:00that surveillance system will be used to track Russian troop movements in real time.
07:04Named the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, or EFTI,
07:07This project amounts to a wholesale change in how NATO defends the flank that is most likely to be attacked
07:13by Russia.
07:13It's no longer about nations having individual border defenses anymore.
07:18Everything will be unified into a single system.
07:21And through that system, all of NATO will know exactly what Russia is doing on the eastern flank,
07:26no matter where on the flank those actions take place.
07:29UNN offers one of many potential examples, stating,
07:32If a drone detects a Russian tank column near the alliance's borders,
07:35the system will automatically combine satellite images, sensor data and radar readings.
07:40They will be available to all alliance countries in real time.
07:44There is no better way to blunt a Russian attack than to see it coming before it's even launched.
07:49That capability is what the EFTI should offer to NATO.
07:52Of course, seeing is one thing, but responding is another.
07:56That's where drones will come into play,
07:58especially since NATO's ground forces will be occupied with stage one of the theory of victory.
08:03And it's here that emulating Ukraine's strategy against Russia will be key.
08:08NATO needs drones.
08:10A lot of drones.
08:12NATO knows that, and it's investing heavily.
08:14On July 7th, NATO itself announced that member nations are going to combine
08:18to invest $40 billion into counter-drone capabilities by 2031.
08:23Drone operator training is also going to be ramped up
08:26to the point where NATO will have five times the number of operators at the end of 2027, as it
08:31has now.
08:32NATO also says that 20 of its members are now part of the Flight Training Europe program,
08:38which has been created to facilitate training for both regular pilots and drone operators.
08:42About a month after this announcement,
08:44United 24 Media reported that NATO is also planning to deploy thousands of AI-powered drones
08:49along the borders its members share with Russia and Belarus.
08:52This will be another part of the EFTI that we mentioned,
08:55with NATO saying that it's going to create something it calls a kill web.
08:59The AI drones will likely be used to surveil and identify targets,
09:03with the information from those drones then being sent directly to drone operators,
09:07allowing them to respond quickly to Russian threats.
09:09And just a couple of days after Grinkovic unveiled his theory of victory,
09:14Reuters reported that NATO has created an innovation fund.
09:18Currently 24 members strong, this $1.12 billion fund is meant to accelerate the creation
09:23of dual-use technologies that can be deployed on the eastern flank.
09:27In other words, more drones.
09:29All of these moves seem to feed into the drone wall concept that NATO and Europe have been touting since
09:34mid-2025.
09:35The idea is to create a multi-layered defence system that stretches across the eastern flank,
09:41incorporating drones, sensors, jammers and weapon systems.
09:45Everything a cooperative defence alliance needs to blunt a Russian assault.
09:49With its invasion blocked and its attacking force blunted,
09:52Russia should back off, but you never know with Putin.
09:55This is a man who has sacrificed over 1.5 million of his own people,
09:59and counting in his never-ending and increasingly unsuccessful invasion of Ukraine.
10:03Putin may want to keep going, even as he watches NATO dismantle his invading force.
10:08If that's the case, stage 3 of the theory of victory comes into play.
10:12NATO will break Russia.
10:15But before we explore that stage, this is a reminder that you're watching the military show.
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10:27Grinkovic keeps his cards pretty close to his chest when it comes to breaking Russia,
10:31noting that NATO will break the enemy warfighting system,
10:35along with everything that supports it.
10:37He makes mention of NATO's highly effective precision munitions,
10:41which will presumably be used to strike against the key parts of the Russian war machine.
10:45That likely means refinery strikes, just like those Ukraine carries out only stronger.
10:50We also imagine that NATO missiles will head to military sites all over Russia.
10:55But the one place we're almost certain will be broken quickly
10:59is a region that we've already mentioned several times, Kaliningrad.
11:03This Russian exclave borders Poland and the Baltic states,
11:06and Russia has used it to project power into Eastern and Central Europe for decades.
11:10If NATO needs to break Russia, Kaliningrad will almost inevitably be the first target.
11:16With Kaliningrad gone, Russia loses whatever troops it has stationed in the exclave.
11:20It also loses a port and the electronic and hybrid warfare equipment
11:24it would want to use to exert some control over the Baltic Sea.
11:27Most importantly, Russia would be forced into a ground fight solely on NATO's eastern flank,
11:31rather than be able to attack the likes of Poland and the Baltic states from its exclave.
11:36All of these are reasons enough to take the fight to Kaliningrad in stage 3 of the NATO plan.
11:41But another reason is that many in NATO believe that Kaliningrad would represent an easy victory for NATO,
11:46as well as a massive blow to Russian morale early in the conflict.
11:50Back in August 2025, the former commander of the US Army in Europe and Africa,
11:54General Christopher Donoghue, said that Kaliningrad is surrounded by NATO members.
11:59And now we have the capability to take that down from the ground in a time frame that is unheard
12:03of
12:04and faster than we've ever been able to.
12:06This has already been planned, and NATO knows exactly what it would need to do, Donoghue added.
12:12A few months later, Ben Hodges, who is the former commander of the group that Donoghue used to lead,
12:17backed that statement.
12:18He claimed that Kaliningrad would be eliminated in the first hours of a war between NATO and Russia.
12:23It's obvious that Russia itself is terrified of this prospect.
12:26That's the only explanation we have for the Kremlin reacting with furious nuclear threats to a UK TV show
12:32called The War Game, in which a hypothetical plan of action for how the UK would respond to a Russian
12:37attack was created.
12:39Kaliningrad featured heavily.
12:40Russia felt exposed to the point where it felt the need to remind the world, once again, that it has
12:45nuclear weapons.
12:46So if breaking Russia is the goal of stage three of the theory of victory, Kaliningrad seems like the obvious
12:52target.
12:52If NATO can take out the exclave as quickly as some of its generals claim,
12:56that wouldn't just mean a strategic victory for the alliance.
12:59Losing Kaliningrad would also show Russia's people and soldiers that Putin can't protect Russia's assets.
13:05Morale falls off a cliff, and the Russian soldiers are broken mentally
13:09as much as NATO would be working to break them physically.
13:12The three-stage plan is in place.
13:14And in Grinkovic's ideal scenario, the plan will be used to prevent a wider war,
13:19rather than serving as the catalyst for more fighting.
13:22In executing what I've outlined above, we are not seeking to impose a strategic defeat on our adversary,
13:27nor do we need to do so, the general declared in Warsaw.
13:31Rather, we are only seeking to stop any attack in its tracks,
13:34to deny the ability to seize and hold our territory, he added.
13:37Still, he accompanied these words with another message to Russia that NATO is not going to back down.
13:43If someone is foolish enough to attack us, we will fight, the general said.
13:48Lessons have been learned from the conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East.
13:51The theory of victory itself has been well rehearsed,
13:55and NATO will be more ready today, more ready tomorrow, and every day after that, Grinkovic declares.
14:01In short, NATO isn't going to start a fight, but it will finish a fight if Russia starts one.
14:08What we're seeing in all of this is the latest example of a certain shift in the tone of NATO's
14:12messages to Putin and his cronies.
14:14What was once mere condemnation of Russia's actions in Ukraine and Europe
14:18is evolving into NATO leaders and generals speaking far more openly about the prospect of a Russian attack on NATO
14:25soil.
14:26In recent weeks, we have seen NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutter
14:29label Russia's hybrid warfare in NATO territory as a sign of desperation.
14:34Leaders in Finland, France, and elsewhere are openly talking about civilian preparedness and the Russian hybrid threat.
14:41There is a purpose behind this tonal shift.
14:43NATO wants Russia to know that it sees what Putin is doing, and it's ready for anything.
14:49Grinkovic was quick to note that a Russian invasion of NATO soil is not an immediate threat, and likely isn't
14:54imminent.
14:55Still, the change in tone is needed, as Russia has been pushing its luck with its hybrid attacks against NATO
15:00territory.
15:01Putin has been trying to test the credibility of NATO's Article 5,
15:04which duty binds all members to come to the aid of any single member that experiences an attack on its
15:09territory.
15:10Through aerial and naval incursions, Russia has been trying to figure out where the line is drawn
15:15and how far it can go before it prompts a true NATO response.
15:18We've seen Russia's hybrid campaign ramp up in 2026.
15:22Arson in factories, sabotage of undersea cables, and cyber attacks are all on the rise.
15:28Drone and other aerial incidents are becoming more common.
15:31The Kiev Independent reports that drone incidents near UK military sites are now almost a daily occurrence.
15:36The new voice of Ukraine says that NATO fighter jets were scrambled 250% more times in July 2026 than
15:42they were in July 25.
15:44Tensions are very clearly rising.
15:46Still, Russia hasn't gone far enough to prompt the sort of response that he could use to justify a Russian
15:51invasion of NATO territory.
15:53Grinkovic knows this better than anybody, which is what his message in Warsaw is really about.
15:57He and NATO know that more hybrid warfare is coming from Russia.
16:01But the veil has been pulled back, and whatever plausible deniability Russia thought it had with these attacks has evaporated.
16:08NATO's members are far more willing now to point the finger of blame at Russia than they were even a
16:12year ago.
16:13Over and over, the Kremlin is getting the message.
16:16NATO is watching.
16:17And now, thanks to Grinkovic, that message has been bolstered with an assurance that Russia isn't going to catch NATO
16:23unaware.
16:24The theory of victory is already in place.
16:26NATO knows exactly what it will do to stop Russia if and when Putin loses the plot and goes on
16:32the offensive.
16:33If we know the Kremlin and its talking heads like we think we do, these words will be propagandized.
16:38Putin loves the idea that some in NATO might believe the reveal of a plan to deal with Russia could
16:43be deemed as war enthusiasm.
16:45Such a view allows Russia to spread the idea that it will be provoked into an invasion of one of
16:50its NATO neighbors,
16:51rather than conducting that invasion because Putin's ego demands it.
16:55But that's not what NATO is doing here.
16:57What we've just seen is a necessary response to Russian actions delivered by one of NATO's leading figures.
17:04Now, Putin knows the basics of what awaits Russia if he tries to invade.
17:08He'll only find out just how deep NATO's plan goes if he decides to pull the trigger.
17:13And only then will Russia's leader realize just how big a mistake he has made.
17:17At least, that's according to Grinkovic.
17:19But as more and more signs point to a war between NATO and Russia, the question has to be asked.
17:25Is NATO truly ready?
17:27We confront that question in our video, where we examine the true scale of Russia's hybrid warfare and how NATO
17:34is already responding.
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