The UK should urgently accelerate plans to spend more on its armed forces or risk being vulnerable to the kind of missile and drone attacks seen across the Gulf and in Russia’s war against Ukraine, an author of the government’s defence review has said.
General Sir Richard Barrons told Sky News this meant politicians would have to make "very difficult choices" to shift investment away from peacetime priorities such as health and welfare but that – following the eruption of war between the US and Israel against Iran – the world has become even more dangerous than when his review was published last June.
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