Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE

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TRIGGERnometry · Britain Isn't Ready For A Real War - Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

We're getting back there.

But actually, even the funding that we've heard about in the defence investment plan is not going to be enough

to realise the strategic defence review, which I think, which was the review of the British military on how we should provide a credible capability going forward.

I don't think there is enough funding for that at the moment, but we are learning from the lessons of Ukraine, 80% lethality from drones, 20% from conventional, but unless you fund it, it's a waste of time.

And I'd say, not a waste of time, now that's wrong, but at the moment, we're sort of funding to about 80%.

And the great president of the United States, who I don't agree with a lot of the things he says, what he has done is stirred up European militaries and made people realise that actually we cannot rely on the US.

We must produce our own military capabilities so that when Putin or whoever replaces him looks west in future...

I say she, there is no way in the world that a woman would ever run Russia.

That's another story.

But when the Russian president looks west, he sees a credible defence and doesn't invade countries like Ukraine in future.

Well, I think priorities for the government have changed.

And although you hear every prime minister since Winston Churchill say that defence and security is the number one priority for a nation, it's probably not since Churchill that we actually believed our leaders when they said that.

So I think that has become an issue.

And so much spending.

When we're spending six times the amount on welfare that we are on defence...

you sort of think we've got we've got the balance wrong here so i think i think that that has really been the case that it's been focusing on other things and and yeah to a degree relying on others good old uncle sam he'll always come steaming over the atlantic to help us out well actually we now know that that's that might not be the case i say might not be the case

And when you compound it with our European partners, who have done the same or even worse, I mean, the Germans, who have taken a lot of criticism for a whole host of historical reasons, obviously, but they were the worst.

They're a hugely wealthy country, massive potential, and actually had a large army, but they just didn't really bother.

It's only recently 300 billion people

euros invested in German defence in the next couple of years.

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