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John Healey’s resignation highlights profound strategic failure in the UK government’s approach to defence
Skip to main content General Sir Richard Barrons – a co-author of the 2025 Strategic Defence Review – says a lack of government competence is making the UK less safe and undermining its reputation with allies. Expert comment Published 11 June 2026 Updated 12 June 2026 — 2 minute READ Image — Secretary of State for Defence John Healey leaves Downing Street after the weekly cabinet meeting in London, United Kingdom on 9 June 2026.
Venezuela, oil and order: What now for regional security after the US seizes Maduro?
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Can the UK afford to fight a war?
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The UK and Germany should combine their strengths to address weaknesses in European defence
The UK is finding it hard to implement its 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR). The review set out the depth and breadth of transformation needed to account for the most profound change to how armed forces are conceived, built and operated for well over 100 years. But money will take much longer to arrive than the risks the SDR identified will allow.
The UK and Germany should combine their strengths to address weaknesses in European defence
Skip to main content UK defence has big ideas but is underfunded. Germany’s spending is rapid and extensive – but its approach looks dated. The countries should combine their efforts, says an author of the UK’s 2025 defence review.
Is Europe Stepping Up on Defense?
Well, is it? From defense innovation, to scaling capabilities, to budgets, the answers aren’t easy. Ryan was joined by General Sir Richard Barrons of the United Kingdom and Peter Michael Nielsen of Denmark to sort through these issues. Barrons had a storied military career and most recently co-led his country’s Strategic Defence Review. Nielsen is Denmark’s deputy national armaments director, a role that has unique weight now as Denmark holds the E.U. presidency.
I wrote the UK defence review: Britain must accelerate reform if it is to help guarantee Ukraine’s security
Skip to main content The SDR set out the steps to meet the UK’s responsibilities as part of the ‘coalition of the willing’. But time is short to make the necessary changes. Expert comment Published 25 September 2025 — 3 minute READ Image — Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speak during a presentation of Ukrainian military drones in Kyiv on 16 January 2025.
To prevent war, Britain must prepare for it
The writer, a retired general, is the former commander of the UK Joint Forces Command, co-chair of Universal Defence and Security...
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Türkiye y la OTAN, más compatibles que nunca
En el desafiante y cada vez más incierto mundo del siglo XXI, muchas cosas pueden cambiar rápidamente. Pero no la geografía. La ubicación de Türkiye siempre ha sido un puente entre Europa, los Balcanes, África y Oriente Medio, y una puerta de entrada al Mar Negro y el sur de Rusia. No se puede dudar que es uno de los miembros más estratégicamente situados de la alianza de la OTAN.
Türkiye & NATO: Made for each other, more than ever before
In the highly challenging, much more uncertain world of the 21st century, things can change very quickly. But not geography. Türkiye’s place has always been the bridge between Europe, the Balkans, Africa, and the Middle East and the gatekeeper to the Black Sea and Southern Russia. Nobody can doubt that it is one of the most significantly positioned members of the NATO alliance.
Ukraine cannot win against Russia now, but victory by 2025 is possible
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Ukraine cannot win against Russia now, but victory by 2025 is possible
The writer is a former general in the British Army and was previously commander of Joint Forces Command Ukraine’s current...
Security Considerations Around the Ukrainian Counteroffensive
Ukraines counter-offensive is under way, and its armed forces intend to take back as much Russian-occupied territory as possible in the coming months. The outcome is hostage to the chance and emotion that characterises all wars. Whatever the result, understanding whose counter-offensive this really is will determine what happens after it draws to a close as the weather turns later this year. There are three very broad potential outcomes.
How the characteristics of war are changing
The invasion of Ukraine is a graphic illustration of how the nature of war never changes. It is an aspect of the human condition that is as irrational, brutal, feral, unbounded and disappointing now as it has been since man first took up a stick against his fellow. When people fight knowing that their personal survival—and that of their families, communities and countries—is at stake, there are no unbreakable laws or boundaries that limit what is done to survive and win.
Ukraine war likely to last until 2025, says former army commander - Channel 4 NewsChannel 4 NewsShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppShare on WhatsAppShare on WhatsAppLoad more share options | dispatchist.com
We spoke to General Sir Richard Barrons, a former Commander of the UK's Joint Forces Command. 4m We spoke to General Sir Richard Barrons, a former Commander of the UK’s Joint Forces Command.We asked him first whether the Ukrainians were right to fear Russia’s much-touted spring offensive, with the mobilisation of up to 500,000 military personnel.
The Age of Digital, Transparent Warfare Is Here
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The Age of Digital, Transparent Warfare Is Here Original
The war in Ukraine was a shock, not a surprise—it was a clear and present danger ever since the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014. It was also not a surprise because the world watched Russia assemble its forces on Ukraine’s border for months.
The Age of Digital, Transparent Warfare Is Here
Vladimir Putin's Mystery Blonde Spotted By His Side During New Year's Address Identified The mystery blonde woman spotted by Vladimir Putin’s side during his New Year’s address over the weekend has been identified as an alleged Russian army medic named Anna Sidorenko, RadarOnline.com has learned.Sidorenko, who was one of the dozens of alleged soldiers flanking Putin during his annual address on Sunday, was honored by the 70-year-old Russian leader for her contribution to the Russian war...
限りなく“透明化”される次世代の戦争──特集「THE WORLD IN 2023」
デジタル時代は、いかに国家同士が対立し、紛争を起こすかを根本的に変えていく。素早く行動する大胆さを備えた者が勝ち、緩やかな変化の心地よさに屈した者が敗者となっていく競争が、これから数十年にわたって続くだろう。 しかしながら、戦い方が変わっても戦争の本質は決して変わらない。戦争とは敵に先んじて人を殺し、何かを破壊することだ。それは意志の衝突であり、凶暴かつ非合理的で、絶望的な人間の一面であり続けるだろう。戦争は理性や感情、偶然が入り混じった思わぬ結末しかもたらさない。テクノロジーが変えるのは戦い方だけで、戦う理由ではないのだ。 リチャード・バロンズ | RICHARD BARRONS 英国の元陸軍将校。2013年4月から16年4月まで英国の統合軍司令官として陸海空軍などの軍備管理や訓練を担当。英国王室から大英帝国勲章を授与されている。政府や国連、欧州連合（EU）と密に連携し、複雑な緊急事態の解決策を見いだすことに貢献してきた。 （Translation by OVAL INC./Edit by Erina Anscomb） ※雑誌『WIRED』日本版VOL.47 特集「THE...
India and UK need 21st century defence cooperation
As well as transforming its Armed Forces to be fit for the Digital Age, India must also establish greater resilience in its daily national life to new forms of intrusion and also build the capability to campaign effectively in the ‘hybrid zone’ as much as the military arena. This is the same dilemma faced by the UK, and provides clear impetus for greater cooperation in finding the winning formulae to beat it.
Nato—time to wake up or shut down | Richard Barrons | Standpoint
Nato, we have repeated for the last 70 years, is the “cornerstone of our defence”. We really meant it: collective defence was the only effective and affordable way to secure Europe, the Atlantic, and the US against the Soviet (and then Russian) potential for nuclear and conventional military aggression. With a combined population of nearly 940 million people and GDP of over $41 trillion, Nato countries could clearly summon the power to protect their homelands and vital interests.
Europe Needs to Calculate for the U.S. Military's Shortcomings
Flickr / U.S. Department of Defense Richard Barrons, Maximilian Terhalle Security, Europe European governments can either think very hard about the obvious implications stemming from the United States’ inability to fight two major powers at the same time or neglect them altogether. Europe Needs to Calculate for the U.S. Military's Shortcomings “No, Sir!” replied James Mattis in 2017, when asked if the United States could fight two wars simultaneously.
Europe Needs to Calculate for the U.S. Military's Shortcomings
“No, Sir!” replied James Mattis in 2017, when asked if the United States could fight two wars simultaneously. Thereby, he had made it unmistakably clear that America could not fight two major powers at the same time. While America’s strategic limitations have not withered away, a serious debate about the implications has not occurred. This has to be recognized as an urgent problem.
European Defense Needs to Go On Offense
Europe's defense capability is at the nadir of a cycle of decline since the end of the Cold War. It was less important at the time when Europe and its allies, principally the U.S., held sway in the world, but that period has ended as Russia and China, now near-peers, have asserted themselves regionally and globally.
The nature of warfare is changing. It's time governments caught up
If the day comes when you wake to find the tap produces no water, your mobile has no signal and your local supermarket is out of essentials, you may have become an unsolicited participant in cyber war. If that day includes the destruction of key power stations, 10 Downing Street demolished and the Bank of England left a smoking wreck by high-precision ballistic and cruise missiles, you will be witness to war in the Information Age.
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