The UK government has unveiled a significant defense investment package aimed at confronting increasing threats from Russia, the most substantial since the Cold War. Prime Minister Keir Starmer highlighted the urgency of this move, emphasizing challenges like war in Europe, nuclear risks, and cyberattacks. The Strategic Defence Review introduces changes such as enhancing war-fighting capabilities and prioritizing NATO. Future defense spending will rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2027, the largest increase since the Cold War, reflecting an urgent need for greater preparedness.
The threat we now face is more serious, more immediate and more unpredictable than at any time since the Cold War, Starmer said as he delivered the review in Glasgow.
Starmer said it would bring fundamental changes to the armed forces, including moving to war-fighting readiness, recentring a NATO first defence posture and accelerating innovation.
Every part of society, every citizen of this country, has a role to play because we have to recognise that things have changed in the world of today, he said.
Starmer's government pledged in February to lift defence spending to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2027, which would mark the largest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War.
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