Downing Street has stated that Sir Keir Starmer “completely agrees” with the thrust of the warning issued by the new head of the Army that Britain must prepare for an “increasingly volatile” world.
In his most memorable discourse in the job on Tuesday, Gen Sir Roland Walker said the nation should be prepared to battle a conflict in three years.
According to the official spokesperson for the prime minister, Sir Keir himself had mentioned “a new and dangerous era” with threats from Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
It comes as the UK has consented to another guard arrangement with Germany.
The PM’s spokesperson responded when asked if Sir Keir agreed with Gen. Walker’s remarks that the new era was “defined by volatility and insecurity.”
He added, “That is precisely why the government is committed to national security first and foremost.”
A review of the UK’s armed forces, the threats it faces, and the capabilities required to address them has been initiated by the government.
The PM’s spokesperson responded, “If the country needed to be ready for war in three years, it was right to spend time on a review.” The prime minister is in complete agreement with the Army’s directive.
“He has discussed the new and hazardous time we live in and to that end we have sent off the essential safeguard audit to evaluate those risks, to survey those difficulties, and guarantee that we have the abilities we want to answer those difficulties as and when they emerge.”
Gen. Walker, who took over as chief of the general staff last month, stated that war was not inevitable and that the Army had “just enough time” to prepare to avoid conflict in his speech at the Royal United Services Institute land warfare conference.
He stated that his goal was to triple the Army’s fighting power by the end of the decade and double it in three years.
He pledged to increase his force’s “lethality” without increasing troop numbers through modernization and new technology.
The size of the UK’s ordinary Armed force, barring volunteers, has been falling lately.
The defense review provides a “roadmap” for increasing defense spending to 2.5% of national income when economic conditions permit, as Labour has stated.
However, the government has been criticized by the Conservatives for failing to meet its election pledge of achieving 2.5% by 2030.
This comes as Defense Secretary John Healey travels to Germany for the first time to sign a new defense declaration with the nation.
He is likewise visiting France, Poland and Estonia this week, in what the public authority has depicted as a “reset of connections” with the UK’s European neighbors.
In the arrangement, the UK and Germany have swore to work all the more intently together to fortify their guard businesses, build up European security and backing Ukraine.
After the United States, Germany is the largest military aid donor to Ukraine, followed by the United Kingdom.
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