Europe’s Defence-AI Awakening
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Europe is entering a phase it has avoided for decades: the acceleration of defence innovation driven by artificial intelligence. What was once a patchwork of slow-moving national programs is shifting into a coordinated response to geopolitical pressure, battlefield realities and NATO-level technology standards. The continent is not rearming in the old sense—it is rewiring its defence thinking for an age where software, autonomy and data matter as much as hardware.

