- Cheaper, more effective, weapons and tactics needed
- Yet increasing share of UK defence budget spent on nuclear missiles, carriers, and F-35 strike aircraft
Let us pose three questions: what are the serious threats to Britain’s security, what are the most effective ways in dealing with them, and what are the most expensive weapons eating up an increasing proportion of the defence equipment budget?
The biggest threat, according to ministers and security and intelligence chiefs, is violent Islamist extremism, manifest in its most horrific form by Isis, a group attracting many young Muslims from Britain and other west European countries.