Tobias Ellwood launches his new book: Ten Steps to Prevent WW3. In ten steps, he shows us exactly what is at stake, how we got here, and how we can build an exit plan to prevent regional conflict escalating into global war.
What does victory look like in Iran? Is it the destruction of nuclear facilities? Regime change? Or something more ambiguous, a degraded capability without a defined political settlement?
If the country fully understood the widening gap between the threats we face and the capabilities we possess, there would be overwhelming support for decisive action. Waiting for a major incident before the penny drops is not strategy. It is negligence.
Britain once excelled at spotting threats before they exploded. Afghanistan is one of them again. Silence is not a strategy. Disengagement is not neutrality. It is a choice, and one we may yet come to regret.
Trump’s battleships are no use for confronting China. They are for monetising the world The Marmite President is indulging in nostalgia with his ‘Golden Fleet’ plans
If Argentina is looking outward again, we should not push it further into Beijing’s orbit. will Britain choose to shape Argentina’s future relationship with the West, or watch others do so in our place?
America is stepping back from global leadership and aligning with Europe’s chief adversary. No longer can we outsource our security to Washington, leaving us vulnerable.
The nuclear age never ended; it only went quiet. And now, as the noise returns, Britain must decide whether it still wants to hear the siren first, or the silence after.
When a sovereign nation is coerced into concessions that weaken its long-term security, reward an aggressor and trade its future for the promise of short-term calm, that is not diplomacy. It is capitulation.
London and Washington cannot afford to be out of sync. If the two powers that once anchored the free world can’t even agree on strategy, values, or basic trust, then the forces seeking to rewrite the international order will fill the vacuum.