Foreign Policy Attitudes and National Alignments: Public Opinion Across Three NATO Members

This committee published a report back in 2018 that made many of these same points and very little has changed since that time, so I think the report, as the title says, there is a cost to complacency and in the period since 2018 that complacency has continued...

The launch of the Type 003 carrier confirms both the scale of Chinese industrial capability and the scope of their ambitions to build a ‘blue water’ navy capable of operating globally,” said Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at RUSI, a U.K.-based think tank specializing in defense, security and international affairs. ...RUSI’s Bronk pointed out that China is now fielding a range of aircraft and weapons designed to hunt down U.S. Air Force and Navy assets in the Indo-Pacific, such as the fifth-generation J-20A stealth fighter and the long-range PL-15 missile, along with the “carrier killer” DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile.

[Ben Wallace] made a speech to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) saying that the army is surviving on “a diet of smoke and mirrors”, among other unsubtly disgruntled formulations ... In a recent IFS podcast, Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy Director-General of RUSI, said that if funding increases, “in the short term I think making the force we have more effective is going to be a strong priority.” ... That was echoed by a speech to that same RUSI conference yesterday by Chief of the General Staff General Sir Patrick Sanders in which he said that “deterring Russia means more of the Army ready more of the time.” (“To put it bluntly, you can’t cyber your way across a river,” he added.)

This committee published a report back in 2018 that made many of these same points and very little has changed since that time, so I think the report, as the title says, there is a cost to complacency and in the period since 2018 that complacency has continued...

The launch of the Type 003 carrier confirms both the scale of Chinese industrial capability and the scope of their ambitions to build a ‘blue water’ navy capable of operating globally,” said Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at RUSI, a U.K.-based think tank specializing in defense, security and international affairs. ...RUSI’s Bronk pointed out that China is now fielding a range of aircraft and weapons designed to hunt down U.S. Air Force and Navy assets in the Indo-Pacific, such as the fifth-generation J-20A stealth fighter and the long-range PL-15 missile, along with the “carrier killer” DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile.

[Ben Wallace] made a speech to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) saying that the army is surviving on “a diet of smoke and mirrors”, among other unsubtly disgruntled formulations ... In a recent IFS podcast, Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy Director-General of RUSI, said that if funding increases, “in the short term I think making the force we have more effective is going to be a strong priority.” ... That was echoed by a speech to that same RUSI conference yesterday by Chief of the General Staff General Sir Patrick Sanders in which he said that “deterring Russia means more of the Army ready more of the time.” (“To put it bluntly, you can’t cyber your way across a river,” he added.)