To strengthen common defence and support Ukraine against the Russian invasion, there must be “a whole of society approach,” a top NATO military official said on Wednesday. “The responsibility for freedom does not lie on the shoulders of those in uniform alone,” said the chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, in Brussels. Senior NATO military officials are discussing collective defence plans as well as progress in the Ukraine war in a two-day meeting at the Western military alliance’s headquarters. Calling for a “warfighting transformation of NATO,” Bauer said the public an…