What to Expect From the 2026 NATO Summit in Turkiye

This analysis of the 2026 NATO Summit outlines the strategic security environment—emphasizing Russia and China as primary cyber and hybrid threat actors—and highlights active cyber operations including GRU-linked Sandworm deploying destructive wiper malware against Poland’s energy grid, Chinese state actors pre-positioning inside critical networks, and large-scale DDoS and sabotage campaigns; it assesses how these activities threaten NATO cohesion, critical infrastructure resilience, and the alliance’s ability to deter or respond ahead of an assessed 2029 threat timeline.