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One commonality between Russia, China and Iran is that they don’t think about deterrence or hybrid activity as separate cyber, influence, and economic measures...One way for Europe to strengthen its response is through coalitions of willing states."

Christoph Bergs, research analyst for airpower ​​​at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, described the threat to UK military bases as a “systemic challenge”. “It is physically not possible to protect these aircraft by putting them into a shelter because there are not enough shelters...So I think those bases, as well as civilian airports ... are vulnerable.”