"Shadow of war": is the UK ready?

I think you could expect a conflict in NATO territory to look very much like what we've seen in Ukraine, where you have this combination of conventional warfare combined with more innovation and technology on the battlefield, having to constantly iterate and react to different moves by the enemy. The new thing on the battlefield is you can see and hear everybody, but that also means that you can be seen and heard. So, tactics to obfuscate your movements and to create multiple dilemmas for your adversary, those are the types of things that have changed the way that NATO has been planning for conflict with Russia, or any other possible threat...First and foremost, I think it's very positive that the Strategic Defence Review [SDR] talks about that combination of more conventional capabilities and more innovation on the battlefield. Secondly, the SDR really recognises that one of the shortcomings of the British military is the small numbers, particularly in the land forces. So you see a lot of language in there about developing the reserve forces. Thirdly, the SDR talks a lot about a mindset of resilience and that's the part where we bring in society. We have to get them used to hybrid challenges. We have think about some very basic things like stockpiling, food security, supply chain security, and protection of critical infrastructure. So the picture I'm trying to paint here is a whole of society approach. And we have seen that at work in Ukraine, and we are learning lessons from that every day."