Friday November 07 2025, 11.10am ,Britain’s military is officially preparing for a possible war in Europe. Britain has not embarked on a defence strategy like this since the Cold War ended over thirty years ago. But Britain’s defence chiefs are deeply uneasy about something else: whether everything from cash machines to the health service, government systems and control of our airspace could be kept going. For three decades, we’ve assumed that a full-scale war wouldn’t reach our shores, and because of that we don’t have clear answers to some very uncomfortable questions. And how would we even find and train enough troops to keep fighting if things truly escalated?
