Strategic Defence Review
A sober analysis of the timeframe would have helped build the necessary sense of urgency
What is missing from the SDR is an assessment of when the UK government believes it could be at war with Russia as part of the NATO Alliance. The review majors on 'warfighting readiness' and a 'whole of society approach', yet, unlike European allies such as Germany, Norway, Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania, the government has decided not to make such an assessment public. Given the spending increases and change of mindset required to deliver SDR, a sober analysis of the timeframe would have helped build the necessary sense of urgency.
