by Great Britain is said to hold annual exercises to prepare for the enemy attack after the national security chiefs warned that the “home country” was “for the first time in many years”.
On Tuesday, the new national security strategy said on Tuesday that the country “has to actively prepare for the possibility that the British homeland is directly threatened in a war scenario.
The plans include annual “national exercises” for the test of Great Britain’s “whole will” for war and other security threats, including a disorder of critical infrastructure such as power plants and underwater cables.
The 55-page document also shows that companies and universities would receive instructions for avoiding cyber threats after a “China audit” of exposure to disorders from Beijing in Great Britain.
Pat McFadden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, told the MPs that the whole country must now be “clear eyes and hard” about the threats.
The ministers have undertaken to carry out an annual hole in order to test the reaction of the government, the emergency services and the Devolved Administration for a national security threat.
The first exercise, which is held this autumn and in the code name Pegasus, will examine how Whitehall and other public bodies would react to a new global pandemic.
Other exercises in the future years could include a rocket strike by a foreign state, a mass terrorist attack, a cyber disorder or the murder of a public personality.
Government sources informed the Telegraph that the exercises mocked sessions of the emergency kobra committee for ministers and high-ranking civil servants and thousands of officials will be included over a period of several months.
After announcing the Telegraph announced last month that the government has updated its emergency plans for a direct attack on the British mainland for the first time in more than two decades.
The resilience department of the cabinet office works plans for the protection of critical infrastructure, high-ranking politicians, royals and members of the public in the event of a strike in Russia.
National security on Tuesday also included an obligation for “greater vigilance to the public” about the threats with which information films that were broadcast between 1974 and 1980.
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They instructed the public how Russia should react to a nuclear attack on the UK. The threat of an atomic bomb in the British area has been evaluated by civil servants today, but their conclusions are classified.
The ministers also announced new commitments to China, which described the strategy as an “important partner” on some questions, including the increase in economic growth.
But it is said that there were “large areas such as human rights and cyber security, in which there are strong differences and in which continued tensions are likely”.
It added: “Cases of China’s espionage, interference in our democracy and the undermining of our economic security have increased in recent years.
“Our national security reaction will therefore continue to be threatening that strengthen our defense and react with strong countermeasures.”
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The document was published when Sir Keir Starrer arrived in the Netherlands for a summit by the NATO leader.
At the meeting, allies of Donald Trump are asked to increase defense financing to 5 percent of GDP, an obligation from 3.5 percent of the key expenses for the core expenditure and another 1.5 percent of wider security expenses.
The Great Britain strategy shows that the wider areas that are to be regarded as defense spending include food prices, supply chains, public security and online damage for children.
Dame Priti Patel, the Foreign Minister of the Shadow, said the government was not clear enough about how to achieve the goal of the key expenditure for defense spending, and claimed that the ministers had only offered “smoke and mirrors”.
At the announcement of the new strategy, the government remembered the lightning spirit of World War II and argued: “We do not have to look too far into our history in order to obtain an example of a full effort that is motivated by a collective will to protect each other.
It added: “We can mobilize this spirit again and use both for our national security and for the reconstruction of our country.”
War in Great Britain
The strong warning in the national security strategy is the news that Great Britain is now being attacked directly than in some time.
The document says: “For the first time in many years, we have to actively prepare for the possibility that the British home country is directly threatened in a war scenario.”
Minister generally avoids the prospect of war that would affect British civilians to prevent public panic.
However, the strategy on Tuesday takes place according to a constant series of warnings from military chiefs that the country has to do more in order to prepare for conflicts or to be inappropriate by an opponent.
The Telegraph previously showed that officials from the cabinet office carry out a complex war game that would regulate the movements of the ministers in the hours after a great attack on the “home” by an enemy state.
It would include where high -ranking politicians would flee if London were bombarded and where the Royals were taken to protect them from the conflict.
The plans were recently updated more than two decades ago before the cyber warfare in relation to the critical national infrastructure was just as serious.
European cooperation
The review showed how Great Britain would work with its allies in the coming years to ensure that the western countries worked against common enemies.
While the strategy determines that the United States is still the British “most important defense and security defender”, it pointed out the latest security contract with Brussels and bilateral negotiations with France and Germany.
It is said that the British “Security and Defense relationship with France in Europe is unprecedented” and that the two countries would update an agreement signed in the Lancaster House in 2010 about the cooperation of nuclear weapons.
“Since the only nuclear gun states in Europe, Great Britain and France have long recognized that a threat to the decisive interests of one would be a threat to the important interests of the other,” it said.
“The work continues to deepen and expand our cooperation and to build on the Lancaster house contracts and before the Summit 2025 UK France summit.”
It also added that Britain also works on a new bilateral contract with Germany and creates a precision weapon with “long-distance strike function”.
Online damage
The publication of the document on Tuesday is the first time that the government has expressly described the “online damage” government or harmful content on social media as a national security risk.
The budget, which is spent on online damage, now contributes to the additional 1.5 percent of the NATO states defense spending, in addition to the normal defense credit of 3.5 percent of GDP.
The strategy states that “fighting technically capable damage in the online area is also of central importance for the management of threats to terrorists and extremist violence”.
It referred to the online security law (OSA), according to which the Internet service provider had to protect users from illegal content.
“While the OSA provides us with tools to make services more secure, especially in terms of terrorist content, there are considerable challenges in combating other violent and extremist content online,” it said.
“Government, law enforcement and service providers have to find paths to tackle this type of content, including the collaboration and support of Ofcom to maximize the lever within the OSA.”
Critical national infrastructure
The strategy states that “critical national infrastructure” could be susceptible to attacks in both the state and private sector, comprises means of transport, strength stations, underwater cables and energy pipelines.
It is pointed out that 99 percent of British digital connectivity come from underwater cables, while Pipelines carry three quarters of imported gas.
“Our territorial security therefore begins at sea – from our ability to stop criminal gangs and prevent enemy states, right down to the import of food and energy supplies,” it said.
The National Risk Register Great Britain has previously identified various forms of attack that would disturb life in Great Britain, from a cyber attack on a hospital to a violation of a nuclear power plant that can lead to health consequences for people nearby.
The strategy said that the government would “carry out a number of new measures to strengthen our limits, defend our territory and to improve the resilience of our critical national infrastructure, which range from the improved defense of our island area to stronger electricity-up-to-be measures and cyber skills”.
Enemy states
The national security check has determined increased cooperation between the Great Britain enemies, ranging from the direct supply of military components from double use from North Korea to Russia to shared forces in the Arctic.
“A main feature of this competition is the willingness of opponents and competitors to work closer together,” it said, adding that such an approach was “both strategically and opportunistic.
“North Korea not only threatens its neighbors in Asia by ballistic rocket tests. It has sent thousands of troops to support the illegal Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine, and directly confronts those who want to preserve European security.”
It also added that Iran had also delivered rockets and drones to Russia to help the Kremlin war effort in Ukraine.
