{"id":319988,"date":"2025-12-15T08:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319988"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:09:53","slug":"uk-defense-minister-warns-shadow-of-war-knocking-on-europes-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319988","title":{"rendered":"UK defense minister warns \u2018shadow of war knocking on Europe\u2019s door\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Esther Webber \u2013 Politico Dec 12, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Europe must be prepare for war on its doorstep, British military chiefs warned Thursday as they detailed an unprecedented level of threat against the U.K.’s armed forces.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the launch of a new British Military Intelligence Service (MIS) Defense Minister Al Carns said the \u201cshadow of war is knocking on Europe’s door” and warned NATO allies must be ready to respond.<\/p>\n

Europe is not facing \u201cwars of choice\u201d anymore but \u201cwars of necessity\u201d which will come with a high human cost, Carns argued, citing Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine as an example.<\/p>\n

Hostile intelligence activity against British military personnel and property has risen by more than 50 percent over the last year, mainly coming from Iran, China and Russia, Chief of Defense Intelligence Adrian Bird revealed at the same launch event at Royal Air Force Wyton.<\/p>\n

The RAF base in Cambridgeshire, in the east of England, will house the new unified intelligence service, and is already home to Pathfinder \u2014 the largest \u201cfive eyes\u201d intelligence hub in the world.<\/p>\n

MIS will bring together units from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force in a bid to speed up information sharing, as recommended by this year\u2019s Strategic Defense Review (SDR).<\/p>\n

It will also host a new “Defence Counter-Intelligence Unit,” designed to protect the armed forces and their equipment and systems from foreign interference.<\/p>\n

Personnel at Wyton will monitor a wide range of data from satellite imagery and drone-recorded video footage, as well as information gathered by agents in the field.<\/p>\n

Following a recent damning report<\/a> into Britain’s preparedness for war by the U.K. House of Commons Defense Committee, Carns argued that revamping military intelligence will help ensure \u201cthat our deterrence is absolutely foolproof.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carns stressed the need to convince the British public of the seriousness of the threats posed by hostile states. Ministers need to \u201cmake sure the population recognize that those threats overseas have direct impacts to their way of living, their cost of living, food prices, fuel prices, and government spending as a whole,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

His warnings echo those issued by NATO boss Mark Rutte, who said during a speech in Berlin on Thursday: “Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great grandparents endured.”<\/p>\n

Senior figures overseeing the British launch admit they face a shortfall in recruiting people to intelligence roles.<\/p>\n

Minister for Veterans Louise Sandher-Jones told reporters: “We know over the past few years that [recruitment] has not gone in the direction that we wanted, and it’s definitely very much a mission for us to turn that around.\u201d<\/p>\n

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British Defense Minister Al Carns says Europe is no longer facing wars of choice\u201d. Indeed, that\u2019s because the agenda was set years ago and war with Russia is an integral part of that <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319989,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319988\/revisions\/319989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}