To face the Russian threat, the UK must increase defence spending – and urgently. ✍️ We need an immediate Strategic Defence Review to decide on military expenditure. 🔵 Major General Jonathan Shaw for ipaperviews
Putin’s invasion has revealed some valuable truths about Russian military capability and methodology that should help us shape our response. Three things stand out. First, Putin’s aggression and desire to restore Russian greatness is not a personal defect but a long term Russian mindset that runs like a seam through Russian history. So Russia can never be trusted, it must be contained permanently.
So, more UK tanks and weaponry to fight a force-on-force battle are not needed. Nonetheless, we would do well to make sure that the heavy metal assets we do have are brought up to full operating specification with deep stocks of ammunition and spares to make them sustainable – and at much higher states of readiness than we have grown used to. For too long, they have been neglected due to the higher priority of the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, where land weapons weren’t much needed.
The new CGS General Sanders says we are in a 1937 moment and that we need to mobilise “to prevent war”. But what worked then was not just a military mobilisation, but a national mobilisation of an entire population to face the threat. Today, this would not only involve belt tightening from the public to resist the economic resource pressure Putin is already placing on us. Industry also needs mobilising, to provide the resources the UK and Ukrainian military need to face this threat.
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