Outgoing armed forces minister James Heappey said a ‘whole-nation endeavour’ is needed to prepare the UK for possible conflict.
The UK has failed to prepare for war in a “whole-nation endeavour”, two former defence ministers have warned.
He gave the example of Sweden, where the government has handed out a booklet explaining what to do in a time of war, including which emergency food provisions to store. “In the end, rather depressingly, it was just defence ministers, senior military officers and MoD officials that participated,” Mr Heappey wrote.
While Mr Wallace claimed the MoD had made such a change, he added “there are too many people in Government and society relying on just hoping everything will go away”.
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