Dendias: We are shaping a new long-term strategy for our national security

“We are obligated to signifier a caller semipermanent strategy for our nationalist security, and that is precisely what we are doing with Agenda 2030—the largest betterment of the equipped forces successful Greek history, arsenic the Prime Minister aptly enactment it.”

This was among the cardinal points emphasized by Minister of National Defense Nikos Dendias during an lawsuit organized successful Patras by the Electoral District Committee of Achaia, affiliated with New Democracy.

As helium further stated, “What matters astir is not our caller ships, nor our caller airplanes, nor the caller weapons we person and volition acquire. What matters is our unwavering commitment—shared by nine and the unit of the equipped forces—to our nationalist narrative, to the consciousness of a shared travel that originates from the past, exists today, and heads toward the future.”

“And what the equipped forces service astatine the level of corporate symbolism,” helium continued, “is precisely this continuity of the communicative from yesterday to today, due to the fact that the nationalist communicative is cohesive, and we are committed to it successful each way.”

Addressing the contented of exigency reviews successful the equipped forces, helium stated, “I gave instructions contiguous for exigency evaluations due to the fact that modernization is indispensable for progress. However, this does not mean we wantonness the past; we bring it on with us—our traditions—because the astir important facet of the equipped forces is our people, our personnel.”

Simultaneously, Nikos Dendias highlighted during his code that “to support our homeland against a state that has 10 times our population, 5 to 10 times our defence expenditures, and neo-Ottoman narratives that endanger our sovereignty and sovereign rights, we indispensable leverage the cardinal strengths of Hellenism: ingenuity and intelligence.” He added:

“We request to marque the astir of the resources provided by the sacrifices of the Greek taxpayer. We cannot participate an arms race, nor tin we hazard bankrupting our state again. We indispensable support it portion besides making it stronger. Therefore, defence expenditures indispensable besides lend to the Greek system and make wealthiness for Greece. This is what we purpose for done the Greek Innovation Center, which, for the archetypal time, links the equipped forces’ needs for innovative products with the capabilities of Greek companies to nutrient those products. We person already achieved a important occurrence with the anti-drone strategy ‘Centaur.’ This system, aft being tested here, was deployed connected our frigates successful the Red Sea and tested nether existent conditions, successfully neutralizing 2 drones. It proved that we don’t request to store from overseas shelves—we tin nutrient important solutions ourselves, creating knowledge, wealth, and capabilities.”

Furthermore, the Minister of National Defense pointed out, “Until now, the superior extortion of the Aegean was our fleet, and the main extortion of the airspace supra the Aegean was our airplanes.” He continued: “These served arsenic the main aerial defence systems and performed their duties brilliantly. But we volition present determination toward an innovative approach. We volition found an air-defense rocket shield, an anti-drone shield covering the entirety of nationalist territory—not conscionable circumstantial units. Additionally, we volition make a rocket obstruction successful the Aegean to marque it impenetrable. Greece indispensable and volition fortify itself. That is the reality, and anyone who ignores it is simply deluding themselves. The question is however we tin execute this successful the champion and astir cost-effective way.”

Referring to the lodging programme for equipped forces personnel, Dendias stated, “In March 2024, during a code successful Patras, I announced that €100 cardinal from the Ministry’s fund had been allocated to the lodging programme to physique astatine slightest 1,000 homes for our unit by 2026 successful the archetypal phase.” He added: “The unit of the equipped forces indispensable bask the aforesaid rights arsenic those successful each equipped forces of the civilized world. This year, aft 10 months, I americium pleased to denote that this programme volition beryllium expanded. In summation to the 1,000 homes already nether construction, we volition physique different 1,000 homes each year. I anticipation that, astatine immoderate constituent not excessively acold away, our homeland volition fulfill this work to the unit of the equipped forces. If it does not, we should not beryllium amazed by the debased enrollment successful subject academies. After all, having the astir precocious systems is meaningless if we bash not person high-caliber radical to run them and support the country.”

At different constituent successful his speech, Nikos Dendias emphasized that “developments are moving rapidly, and the lone changeless emerging successful the satellite is implicit instability.” He added: “We indispensable truthful accommodate our policies to this caller reality, this perfectly unstable and fluid situation characterized by wars astir us, everywhere. The concern successful Syria is simply a caller root of interest for Greece. Our neighbor’s involution successful Syria raises questions, and the Christian populations successful the Middle East request our interest, care, and attention.”

“Along with each these challenges,” helium continued, “it is our work to sphere our ain identity, the elements that specify our nation, arsenic these are the coagulated instauration that tin support america lasting during these times of globalization.”

He besides stated that “the Greek household has been the halfway of our endurance passim the humanities travel of Hellenism. The past clip it played a decisive relation was during the tragic fiscal situation of 2010–2019, when, without the bonds of the Greek family, we would not person survived.”

“All these institutions that travel us,” helium added, “must beryllium preserved. And I privation to beryllium clear: preservation is simply a connection with a wholly affirmative connotation.”

Moreover, helium noted, “In caller years, determination has been an effort to springiness the connection ‘preservation’ a antagonistic connotation. But let’s beryllium clear: advancement and preservation are not opposites. They tin and indispensable coexist.”

Continuing his speech, Nikos Dendias stressed that “when Konstantinos Karamanlis, the laminitis of our governmental party, brought Greece into the European Union, helium did truthful to sphere and safeguard the nationalist structure. For this reason, we person an work to support this operation from the advancing forces of populism and irresponsibility.”

“In New Democracy,” helium continued, “we judge successful an open, wide society, and we person a work to safeguard, particularly present successful these times of populism, the achievements of decades, the credibility, and the functionality of the institutions of a modern wide state.” He added, “We are the genuinely fashionable party, the genuinely people-oriented party, due to the fact that that is the ideology of our governmental movement.”

Addressing the participants of the event, helium said, “We indispensable each rally down the large effort being made by our enactment and the Prime Minister. We indispensable each enactment the nationalist effort, and fto maine guarantee you that we tin marque Greece adjacent better, adjacent stronger, adjacent much powerful, and unafraid a better, safer, and happier aboriginal for each Greeks. This is New Democracy’s committedness to Greek society.”