On June 24, the British government released its “National Security Strategy 2025: Security for the British People in a Dangerous World.”
The world has changed, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared in the document’s Foreword. “Russian aggression menaces our continent,” he claimed. “Strategic competition is intensifying. Extremist ideologies are on the rise. Technology is transforming the nature of both war and domestic security. Hostile state activity takes place on British soil. It is an era of radical uncertainty, and we must navigate it with agility, speed and a clear-eyed sense of the national interest.”
The report draws on what it claims are three lessons that are fundamental to British national security today: “First, that foreign policy should answer directly to the concerns of working people,” secondly, “that collective security, led by NATO, remains the cornerstone of our strategy;” and thirdly, “that nations are strongest when they are bound together by a shared purpose.”
