In a few days, US Air Force general Andrew M. Clark (nicknamed "Spoo") will celebrate his first anniversary as head of the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Force (NAGSF), based at the Sigonella Italian Air Force base in Sicily. Clark was appointed during a period of great uncertainty, a few months after Russia invaded Ukraine and war broke out, when NATO was working on a new internal and projection operating mode (IO, 04/07/22). The alliance was looking to reorganise its rapid reaction plans (IO,