A new era of warfare was heralded by the long-awaited Defence Investment Plan yesterday, as it laid out Labour’s uncosted route to improving the country’s security.
Traditional methods of defence, such as ground troops and manned tanks, will make way for crewless systems that have proved to be devastatingly effective in Ukraine.
Through an extra £15billion of spending over four years – bringing defence investment to just 2.68 per cent of GDP by 2030 – the Navy is to be transformed into what the First Sea Lord General Sir Gwyn Jenkins calls ‘the Hybrid Navy’. The RAF and Army are to undergo
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