This is a new operating concept?
[Chief of the Defence Staff General Nick] Carter also identified the nature of the growing threat driving Britain to rethink its strategy.
“Our authoritarian rivals see the strategic context as a continuous struggle in which nonmilitary and military instruments are used unconstrained by any distinction between peace and war. These regimes believe that they are already engaged in an intense form of conflict that is predominantly political rather than kinetic,” he said. “Their way of warfare is strategic, it is synchronized and systematic, and our response must be too.”
I don't mean to be rude, but what if an authoritarian rival chooses "industrial era" war to achieve their territorial objectives?
How does the ability to fight a long continuous struggle that reduces the distinction between peace and war do any good for a defense establishment?
Britain seems like it wants to restrict itself to supporting others and mere direct military spasms, and call that a defense strategy. At least the ten-year rule admitted that the holiday from war had an ending.
