From the Strategic Concept to Industrial Essentiality
How NATO 2022 redefines the companies the Alliance cannot afford to lose.
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About this report
NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept is usually read as a statement of strategic posture: Russia as the central threat, collective defence as the organising principle, resilience as a condition of deterrence, and emerging technologies as a battlefield determinant. This report reads it differently. It treats the Concept as the first layer of an industrial demand map.
The question is not simply which defence companies benefit from higher spending, but which industrial functions become non-substitutable once NATO translates deterrence, forward defence, cyber resilience, space dependence, critical-infrastructure protection and technological superiority into operational requirements.
Key questions this report answers
- How can NATO's 2022 Strategic Concept be read as the first layer of an industrial demand map rather than only a statement of posture?
- How do the Concept's threat formulations translate into non-substitutable industrial functions?
- Which essential company classes emerge from these industrial functions?
- What are the implications for strategic capital, corporate screening and DFM coverage?
Inside this report
- Executive Summary
- The Strategic Concept as an Industrial Document
- From Threat Formulations to Industrial Functions
- From Industrial Functions to Essential Company Classes
- Implications for Strategic Capital, Corporate Screening and DFM Coverage
- Bibliography
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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Methodology, format & delivery
DFM reports are built from primary and official sources — TED procurement notices, CORDIS and the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, EIB operations, the NATO Innovation Fund portfolio, SIPRI data, official budget documents and company disclosures — read together with the underlying legal texts. Sources are cited in the document; it reflects them as of its publication date (20 June 2026). You receive a 19-page PDF, watermarked to you on every page, delivered on the confirmation page and by e-mail immediately after checkout (personal link valid 72 hours, up to 5 downloads). Guest checkout, single-user licence — Terms of Sale.
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