By LUKE HAWKER
This report makes clear that we are living in a world becoming rapidly more dangerous, with intensifying challenges from state aggressors who flout the rules, terrorists who want to harm our way of life and the technological race with our adversaries.
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson
The MoD have been alerted to the devastating prospect of a “space-based weapons systems” with nuclear capabilities as early as 2050.
A report called the ‘Future Starts Today’ outlines the “critical point” the world has reached in relation to warfare.
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson acknowledged the “dangerous” state of the world.
He said: “This report makes clear that we are living in a world becoming rapidly more dangerous, with intensifying challenges from state aggressors who flout the rules, terrorists who want to harm our way of life and the technological race with our adversaries.
“Identifying these threats means we can continue to build an Armed Forces that can stay ahead of them.”
As the advancement of technology increases the prospect of military space bases has come to fruition with nuclear warheads circling earth.
These weapons would have “global reach” and be unseen by those on Earth.
The destructive power of a nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapon – detonated in the air rather than on the ground - will be developed to knock out whole cities and even countries.
Electromagnetic pulses have the ability to shut down anything running on electrical power therefore, lights, communications, heating systems would all stop working in an instant.
The report also outlines how increasing global tensions over climate change and demand for resources could lead to conflict.
The last Strategic Defence and Security Review, published three years ago, identified four main areas of threat, including the evolution of extremist terrorism, the resurgence of state-based threats, the rapid advance of technology on all fronts and the erosion of the rules-based international order.
The MoD carries out a review of the global risks and how to configure the nation’s Armed Forces every five years.
The UK is at the forefront of the world’s military powers and Mr Williamson is set to agree a cyber accord with the US to deal with the threat of cyber security.
He said: “I am convinced cyber, information warfare and intelligence must be fully integrated into our military power, that they are fundamental to a modernised defence and our war fighting successes, and that without them we put our nation’s security at perilous risk.”
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