NATO militaries need to learn how to disperse weapons production, as Ukraine does, before entering a war to preserve their ability to keep producing while under attack, a senior defense official advised.
Raivis Melnis, the defense minister of Latvia, an alliance and EU member state bordering Russia, told Business Insider that industry in the West might not be ready to operate as it would need to in wartime.
Ukrainian arms makers split up manufacturing across multiple sites, operate underground, and even move around to prevent a single successful Russian strike from having a huge impact on their operations. But in Europe, many companies run…
