🇬🇧 should reclaim its role as Europe’s indispensable ‘offshore balancer’, leveraging its advantage in entrepreneurship, orbital launch capability, and subsea infrastructure
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As the 🇷🇺 threat in the #HighNorth escalates, 🇬🇧 should lead the Joint Expeditionary Force in building a unified Anti-Access/Area Denial shield to bolster NATO's collective deterrence
⚓ Read the #Memorandum by @bbaxendalesmith.bsky.social, our Adjunct Fellow, in #BritainsWorld
UK and Germany should collaborate to build a sovereign, European-led sub-strategic nuclear deterrent within the #NATO framework to deter Russian aggression.
💡 Read the latest #Memorandum by @james-rogers.bsky.social, our Co-founder (Research), for #BritainsWorld
💡 ‘Major conflict in Europe fundamentally alters 🇬🇧 threat calculus...🇷🇺 full-scale invasion of 🇺🇦 has broken previous assertions that conventional mass capability was a thing of the past,’ says Dr Anisa Heritage, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
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🌍 ‘Despite 🇪🇺 considerable funding initiatives, cooperation with partners outside the union remains an attractive option,’ writes @gesineweber.bsky.social, @ethz.ch
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🌍 ‘The most plausible future for #GCAP is not unlimited enlargement, but a stable core of the current partners combined with carefully staged forms of external participation,’ says Rena Sasaki, @jhu.edu
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💡 ‘Whatever the long-term success of #GCAP, uncertainty over cost, timetables, and project management will persist for the foreseeable future,’ writes @lanoszka.bsky.social, our International Fellow
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‘🇯🇵 has concerns about introducing new partners, and it is not hard to see why. While diversification may increase funding for research and development, there are risks,’ argues Dr David Jordan FRAeS FRHistS FRSA, @fasikcl.bsky.social
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🚨 ‘#GCAP is central to the future credibility of 🇬🇧 air power. It offers a pathway into the sixth-generation era – something that cannot be taken for granted,’ writes Air Marshal (rtd.) Sir Christopher Harper KBE FRAeS, Member Air and Space Power Group, @aerosociety.bsky.social
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🛩️ ‘The bleeding edge of technology should sit in the supporting systems with which #GCAP will integrate, be they weapons, decoys, or jammers: software-defined, autonomous systems,’ says Wg. Cdr. Ben Goodwin MBE, our Adjunct Fellow
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💡 ‘However appealing they may make the economics, additional partners risk diluting the programme’s current strengths: alignment of strategic intent and a pragmatic approach to collaboration,’ says Arun Dawson, @warstudieskcl.bsky.social
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✈️ ‘The trajectory that could secure #GCAP’s future growth would be a tiered expansion model, in which partners such as 🇵🇱 are integrated into high-value industrial chains,’ writes Dr Przemysław Biskup, Polish Institute of International Affairs
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What is the future of #GCAP?
We asked 8 experts in today’s #BigAsk
✍️ Dr Przemysław Biskup, Arun Dawson, Wg. Cdr. Ben Goodwin MBE, AM (rtd.) Sir Christopher Harper KBE FRAeS, @davidjair.bsky.social, @lanoszka.bsky.social, Rena Sasaki, @gesineweber.bsky.social
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🌎 ‘Discussion about the Trump corollary focused first on...the Western Hemisphere. This misses critical context – the linkage of security and stability in the Western Hemisphere to potential conflict in the #IndoPacific,’ says Joshua Huminski, our International Fellow
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📝 ‘No modern 🇬🇧 strategy document was as well thought-out as the Integrated Review. Equally, no modern 🇬🇧 strategy document has become so rapidly obsolete,’ writes Dr Marc De Vore, our Adjunct Fellow
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📢 ‘Both the Conservative and Labour governments have been strong on slogans...but weak on strategy and clear guidance,’ writes Charles Parton OBE, Chief Adviser to our China Observatory
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‘If the #IndoPacific is to remain a genuine pillar rather than an afterthought, 🇬🇧 should prove that the #CSG2025 was a stepping stone to sustained operational engagement, not just a curtain call,’ says Gray Sergeant, our Research Fellow
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💡 ‘The Integrated Review was a revolutionary document...It challenged the post-Cold War complacency and flawed assumptions of successive governments,’ says @james-rogers.bsky.social, our Co-founder (Research)
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✍️ ‘Since the Integrated Review was published, 🇬🇧 has taken a retrograde step, does not exhibit foresight, and does not have a coherent national strategy,’ argues Dr Rob Johnson, our Honorary Fellow
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What has the Integrated Review achieved five years after publication?
We asked 5 experts in today’s #BigAsk
✍️ Dr Rob Johnson, Charles Parton OBE, @james-rogers.bsky.social, Gray Sergeant, Dr Marc De Vore
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💭 ‘There is little in Macron’s speech at Île Longue that promises significant increased capacity. However, the conceptual component of deterrence has been altered for the better – and I would say better for 🇬🇧 too,’ says @edstringer.bsky.social, Policy Exchange
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‘🇬🇧 deterrent continues to play an important complementary role, while 🇫🇷 is adding a more explicitly European dimension to the overall deterrence debate,’ says Linas Kojala, @gssc-lt.bsky.social
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💡 ‘The fact remains, however, that 🇫🇷 can engage in a political-strategic initiative of a kind that 🇬🇧 currently cannot,’ says Dr Jan Ruzicka, @aberuni.bsky.social
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✍️ ‘This doctrinal evolution and the coordination of 🇬🇧 and 🇫🇷 deterrents will provide a solid foundation for a European security and defence architecture in the face of adversaries, particularly 🇷🇺,’ says @m514ever.bsky.social, @frstrategie.bsky.social
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🗣️ ‘The procurement of the next generation of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) dominates the defence budget without a public rationale like that of 🇫🇷,’ writes Prof. Sir Hew Strachan FBA FRSE, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
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💡 ‘Macron’s proposals...should be a moment for 🇬🇧 to rethink its own approach to nuclear deterrence, including the question of its dependence on 🇺🇸,’ writes @henninghoff.bsky.social, @ipq.bsky.social
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⚓ ‘Faslane and Île Longue are very close to one another, and the maritime approaches to one bear directly on the security of the other,’ writes Julien Lalanne de Saint-Quentin, our Adjunct Fellow
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🚨 ‘In some ways, 🇫🇷 forward deterrence may even undermine the defence of Europe for the simple reason that it is so ambiguous,’ writes @james-rogers.bsky.social, our Co-founder (Research)
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☂️ ‘By creating a unified joint European nuclear umbrella with 🇫🇷...🇬🇧 and its allies can hedge against the worst possibility of a complete reduction of 🇺🇸 deterrence,’ argues @philippelefevre.bsky.social, @cbesurrey.bsky.social
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How will 🇫🇷 shift in nuclear doctrine affect 🇬🇧?
@henninghoff.bsky.social, Linas Kojala, @philippelefevre.bsky.social, @m514ever.bsky.social, @james-rogers.bsky.social, Dr Jan Ruzicka, Julien Lalanne de Saint-Quentin, Prof. Sir Hew Strachan, AM (rtd.) Ed Stringer CB CBE
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