Air defences to protect Britain from attack are to be reviewed, a minister has said, as an ex-army chief issued a World War III warning, APA reports citing The Evening Standard.
Armed forces minister Luke Pollard laid out how Britain’s armed forces would be modernised under a strategic defence review to report within the next year, to deter aggression both at home and abroad.
“It’s really important in these difficult times we are not only keeping the UK homeland safe, looking at for instance air defence of the UK, but also making sure that we can support our allies, especially looking at say British forces that are already stationed on Nato’s eastern flank, in Estonia,” he told GB News.
“That is why the defence review will be a Nato-first review, securing our own backyard in the Europe and North Atlantic area.”
His comments came after the former head of the British army warned the world faced "as dangerous a moment as any time that we've had since 1945", with a possible attack on Nato territory if alliance members do not substantially re-arm.
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