Key Topics from the 2025 Edition
The International Mountain Troops Summit offered a conference and workshop programme dedicated to the challenges of mountain warfare and extreme cold operations: technological innovation, mobility, resilience, logistics and strategic developments.
Discover the key themes that shaped the 2025 edition
- Modern Mountain Warfare: Between Technology and Fundamentals
Discussions highlighted the need to strike a balance between emerging technologies (drones, sensors, cyber) and the fundamentals of mountain warfare. In extreme environments, training, terrain mastery and interoperability remain decisive.
- Technological Innovation for Defence: Tailored Solutions
This session presented concrete solutions for mountain operations, including resilient communications, GPS-denied navigation, specialised drones, alternative energy sources and dual-use technologies. The contribution of artificial intelligence was illustrated through several operational use cases.
- Strategic Perspectives: Current and Future Operational Challenges
This session examined present and future operational challenges, ranging from extreme cold warfare to urban and harassment operations. Lessons learned from recent conflicts highlighted the need to adapt doctrines, training and international cooperation.
- The Use of Drones in Mountain Environments: Opportunities and Limitations
Discussions highlighted the benefits of drones for reconnaissance, logistics and risk management, while also underlining their limitations in mountainous terrain. Technical constraints, vulnerabilities and countermeasures were addressed, opening perspectives on the development of cargo drones.
- Modern Warfare in Extreme Cold: Resilience and Adaptation
This session addressed the constraints of combat in extreme cold, including evolving Arctic theatres, human resilience and technological limitations. Soldier training and interoperability among allied forces were identified as key challenges.
- Mobility and Logistics in Extreme Environments: Practical Challenges
The workshops highlighted the challenges of mobility and support in mountain and extreme cold conditions, from adapting motorised assets to logistical anticipation. Achieving the right balance between unit autonomy, technological innovation and support resilience was central to the discussions.