Julian Brazer is a fellow of the Royal United Services Institute. He was a Conservative MP from 1987 to 2017. He served as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Reserves from 2014 to 2016.
John Foreman’s recent article on the Yantar incident highlighted the Russian threat to Britain’s economically vital data cables. Data cables are, however, only part of a disturbing picture. The UK is almost the only large country whose critical national infrastructure is so heavily coastal or underwater. All of our gas comes by sea, either through pipelines from Europe, from the
Last week, the new head of the Army, General Sir Roly Walker, warned that war may be much closer than we think. Is our military ready? Two years ago, a syndicate of young officers published an article on the extreme shortage of division and brigade-level training in the British Army. Since then, the amount of larger-scale training
