UK Defence
This [the Iran war] was something that, while we didn't necessarily know the day, we knew this was an entirely plausible thing that could happen, probably for the last 6 months...and if we had started preparing, then we could have positioned ourselves much better. We could have started stockpiling, we could have started to engage with our Gulf allies about how they protect their airspace from drones...so this was a a conversation that the government didn't really move early enough to address."
