NATO trainers say Ukraine's rapid wartime pace is spotlighting just how slowly the West moves in peacetime

Ukrainian soldiers are working at speeds that allies can't match, and Western training led by allies at peacetime has had to adjust.

Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images NATO trainers say Ukraine's wartime pace is exposing Western bureaucracy.

Operation Legio is reshaping how allies think about speed and innovation.

Leaders say peacetime processes won't work in a future major war.

Working with Ukraine's soldiers has shown NATO trainers how far Western peacetime processes often lag behind the pace of a military fighting for its survival.

Norway runs Operation Legio, a multinational effort that trains Ukrainian troops at Camp Jomsborg in eastern Poland while feeding battlefield lessons back into NATO militaries.

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John, the S3 Operations Officer in charge of synchronizing the training operation, told Business Insider that there's "a lot of learning to be done for European nations." Camp Jomsborg is trying to adapt to the "operational tempo of a wartime nation," he said, but for much of Europe, more broadly, questions remain about fast, responsible procurement and quick training pipelines that preserve quality.

Brigadier Atle Molde, the commander of Task Force Legio, told Business Insider that "it's not difficult to see that the way we operate in peacetime West wouldn't work." "I think that's something that frustrates us all the time," he said.

Keeping pace with Ukraine John said that the operation is working within a "challenging dynamic," with the Camp Jomsborg training sitting at "the mental and geographical middle point between war in the east and peacetime mechanism in the West." Ukraine needs training and equipment fast, "and our processes, our mechanisms are not that used to that tempo," he said.

Ukrainian soldiers are training at Camp Jomsborg in eastern Poland.

Synne Nilsson / Forsvaret The West, John said, is "used to long planning horizons." Ukraine "needs effects now." However, "we are improving," he added.

Trying to maintain the right pace has "met some difficulties," John said, but the multinational effort has shown it can adapt when required.

Such adaptation can be seen in how the camp was built .