At the summit in Washington, NATO intends to make commitments in the defense industry, urging participants to increase weapons production and return to stricter standardization of ammunition, according to Reuters. “Ukraine has shown that our standardization was good on paper but not so good in the field,” said a NATO official, speaking on condition of anonymity and referring to ammunition such as 155mm artillery shells, which are in short supply around the world. While NATO has introduced standards for small arms rounds, such as assault rifles, allowing allies to use each other’s ammunition, t…