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“We are talking about a NATO which the United States is still part of, but which the United States is no longer the indispensable leader (of),” said Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank focused on defense and security. “I mean, that is what JD Vance and Donald Trump are talking about. They’re talking about a NATO that is transformed and one in which the Europeans take the greatest share of the burden.”

Dr Jack Watling, senior researcher at Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), said AI could also be used to help triage information from the battlefield and send it to operators to allow them to respond more quickly.

Gen Walker, a former Irish Guards officer, said the full-scale attack on Ukraine was designed to fracture Nato and destroy the transatlantic alliances that protected Britain since World War Two. He told the RUSI think tank in London: “This about the Euro Atlantic security architecture. That’s the object of their manoeuvre and it is just starting in Ukraine, so it must fail in Ukraine. Otherwise where does it go next.”