Britain’s military and government is officially preparing for a possible war in Europe. The UK’s latest National Security Strategy openly talks about “the possibility of the UK homeland coming under direct threat” in a wartime scenario. Britain hasn’t embarked on a strategy like this since the Cold War ended over thirty years ago to bolster its troops, drones, submarines, cyber capabilities and nuclear arsenal.
Ukraine, of course, has been living through exactly those scenarios for the past three and a half years. However, Britain’s defence chiefs are deeply uneasy about something else, whether everything from cash machines to the health service or control of our air space could be kept going.
How would hospitals handle mass casualties and could the power grid stay online under attack?
And how would we even find and train enough people to keep fighting if things truly escalated?
00:00 Intro
01:31 Military Readiness
04:35 Public Mindset
06:51 Institutional Culture
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