Avoid the resurgent nightmare of the Great War in Europe preparing to fight one, while in fact it has already been involved in a war scenario in Ukraine (albeit in the form of ‘proxy war’). It is the paradox that the prime minister Keir StarmerLabor with the helmet, he does not fear to challenge by presenting the new British military strategy, revised and correct in front of a world described as increasingly unstable and dangerous: a world in which the enemy found, in the perception of London as other western allies, has first of all the face of Russia by Vladimir Putin. To whose “threat” The United Kingdom arises to respond – from here to a decade at least – modernizing its arsenals, including nuclear one, and evoking the next birth venture of an entire flotilla of newly stuck “attack underwater”. “The threat we have now in front is more serious, more impending and more unpredictable than ever from the Cold War,” Sir Keir from Scotland, the seat of the submarine base that historically represent the only atomic deterrent available to London, has ruled, evoking “new nuclear risks, cyber-daily outlets, a growing Russian aggression in our waters, threats to our skies”. In addition to “an” ongoing European war “such as that in Ukraine, a country to which the island reaffirms its” unshakable “support.
Hence the need for “fundamental changes” for the kingdom and its armed forces, illustrated in the announced “defense strategy” renewed in the name of a patriotic appeal to the duty and unity of the subjects of His Majesty who recalls warship war times. “The warning” towards Moscow wants to be explicit, underlines John Healey, Minister of Defense of the current government; While the old Lord George Robertson, his counterpart at the time of Tony Blair and then at the top of NATO in the period between the war for Kosovo and the invasion of Iraq, widens the target to a so -called “mortal quartet” made up of Russia, North Korea, Iran and China (the latter never mentioned in white by Starmer). But beyond the rhetoric and promises does not even convince the opposition to Torty or the media phil-conservatives local, who notice how much the premier remains in reality in the vague on resources, starting with the commitment to increase the total military expenses from 2.5% of the GDP set for 2027 to 3%: budget target postponed for now, and only roughly, at 2034. Three crucial goals: make the country “ready for combat”; to give “added value to the NATO” (intended to remain “always in first place” as a pillar of a security system anchored to the transatlantic link between the USA and Europe and the special relationship between London and Washington); and finally “accelerate the innovation” of the war production and the militar-industrial complex “at a rhythms of war.
In concrete terms, we aim to create six new factories of ammunition and weapons; To create a “hybrid” coordination within the Royal Navy by equipping the Navy of ships, submarines, but also with new planes (commitment behind which the Times reveals the intention, at the moment not official, to extend the nuclear deterrent to the possession of unconventional bombers); to build 12 new submarines with atomic propulsion by the late 2030 in partnership with the USA and Australia in the framework of the Tripartito Aukus pact; to recreate a national guard; In investing 15 billion pounds for the nuclear arsenal in the years and for a “national assembly program of missile newspapers”; to establish an ad hoc command for the launch of computer offensives against inaccurate hostile powers. All while from Germany General Carsten Breuer, number one of the Bundeswehr, accredited “a unanimous analysis of the western secret services, Based on the observation of the production of weapons but also on the growth of staff in Russia “, according to which Putin could be” able “to attack objectives born” since 2029 “.