UK must prepare for war in three years, nation's new army boss warns

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UK must prepare for war in three years, nation's new army boss warns
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Chief of the General Staff Sir Roly Walker warned of the "increasingly volatile" world amid an "axis of upheaval".

Chief of the General Staff Sir Roly Walker warned of the "increasingly volatile" world amid an "axis of upheaval"."It doesn't matter how it ends. I think Russia will emerge from it probably weaker objectively – or absolutely – but still very, very dangerous and wanting some form of retribution for what we have done to help Ukraine," he said, the

Walker plans to double the Army's "fighting power" by 2027 and triple it by the end of the decade, according to the BBC.desire to retake Taiwan, and said Iran is likely to pursue nuclear weapons, adding since the Ukraine invasion those nations had created a "mutual transactional relationship", sharing weapons and technology.Chief of the General Staff Sir Roly Walker warned of the "increasingly volatile" world amid an "axis of upheaval".

"That is why you get to this point by... 2027-2028 this convergence may have reached some sort of mutual singularity and your ability to deal with them in isolation - a specific crisis that can be managed by the rules-based system - I think is significantly diminished," he said. "A problem in one area is likely to trigger a sympathetic detonation in another and therefore it is a global problem looked at from different perspectives around the world."He also said the Army needs to embrace new technology including AI.

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