Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture 2022

Armed forces head warns of ‘extraordinary and profound’ geopolitical crises In a speech at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London on Wednesday, he said: “As 2022 draws to a close, we have a world in which four separate geopolitical crises are unfolding in parallel. “Whether it’s (Vladimir) Putin’s sense of impunity, Iran’s meddlesome and destabilising behaviour, North Korea’s outright belligerence or an increasingly authoritarian China. “None of these challenges exist in isolation.

Russia has failed and will continue to fail in all its war aims,” Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, chief of the defence staff, said in a speech in London, adding that the invasion of Ukraine would “only get worse for Russia”. ...Radakin’s comments were a rare positive assessment in an otherwise gloomy speech at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, in which he surveyed an array of global threats, describing them as “a generational struggle for the future of the global order”.

Adm Sir Tony Radakin, the chief of defence staff, told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) thinktank on Wednesday that the Kremlin had only planned for a short period to subjugate Ukraine, and has instead found itself embroiled in a conflict lasting nearly 10 months. “So, let me tell Putin tonight what his own generals and ministers are probably afraid to say,” the military chief said. “Russia faces a critical shortage of artillery munitions. This means that their ability to conduct successful offensive ground operations is rapidly diminishing.