Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
At a moment when Europe faces the prospect of a major war, when UK and US forces may soon be in action in the Middle East, and when nuclear-armed strongmen are rattling their sabres in our direction, it beggars belief that we are still debating whether to increase defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP in the near future, rather than in some comfortable era that may never arrive.
The results of Nato’s Exercise Hedgehog 2025 in Eastern Europe, only now quietly circulated from nearly a year ago, should have settled the argument. In that simulation, a British brigade was effectively destroyed by Ukrainian drone operators. That was not an indictment of our soldiers. It was a warning about the nature of modern warfare. If a British brigade goes into action against a Russian formation on Nato’s eastern flank, we must ensure it does not suffer the same fate.
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