General Hecker, sir, what do you see as the main capability gaps that NATO will have to address?

Thanks, Scott.

I think one of the ones that really stands out to me that I struggled with a lot when I was the air comm commander was air defense.

Because ever since the Cold War ended, NATO has really kind of taken a knee when it came to investment in air defense.

We would buy some things, but not near enough.

And as an example of that, What we do when we kind of are putting together our air defense plan is we will take a look at what we call the critical asset list.

And we would determine things that needed to be protected.

We're going to have to sort that out before we spend more than $100 billion on Golden Dome, because otherwise we're just building on a rickety foundation, and that's not going to go well.