General Sir Richard Barrons

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Independent Thinking · NATO in Ankara: Is Europe ready for a Russian attack? · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

Can only be resolved really in one of two ways.

Either there is a there's a change now of policy and resourcing, because it is possible to catch up.

And we should recall that in the Strategic Defence Review, the UK charted.

I am one of the authors of the Strategic Defense Review.

And the and the the Strategic Defence Review charted how you transform armed forces for war in the 21st century.

I am biased, but it's the best set of ideas anyone has produced in the world so far.

But what the UK is not doing is resourcing those ideas anything like fast enough to meet the risks that it has I identified.

And that's poor.

And as Marin has described, on the other hand, you have Germany and Poland spending vast sums of money.

on things that don't catch that transformative narrative, anything like fast enough.

And all of this could constitute collectively

A massive failure of deterrence.

And if you want an example of what that means, look at what happened to Ukraine in twenty twenty two.

So so none of that.

The heart of the strategic challenge with the Defence Investment Plan

Is on the one hand, the government says we may get attacked in twenty thirty, and on the other hand, its defence plan gets you to a minimum better place by about twenty thirty-five, five years after you need to be ready.

As Marion has described, when you when you say, okay, so what what do you cut, then you have to reflect on the fact that for actually thirty-five years the armed forces have been made smaller and hollowed out in the absence of

Of an existential threat.

So what is it that you would like to cut?

Would you like to cut the nuclear deterrents nearly 25% of the budget?

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