UK threat assessment ‘flawed’
It will come as a surprise to no-one, but the UK Government’s approach to mapping threats to national security is ‘flawed’.
Judging by the evidence of the UK and its response – along with equally static allies – to events in Ukraine and the Middle East, there is a serious problem here.
A report on the upcoming Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) from the House of Commons Defence Committee has criticised the government’s ‘tiered’ method of threat assessment as flawed ‘in assuming that the probability of potential threats becoming actual ones can reliably be predicted’.
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