Britain is ‘at war every day’ due to constant cyber attacks
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The Chief of the Defence Staff has said that Britain is “at war every day” due to constant cyber attacks from Russia and elsewhere.
Distinctions between peace and war “don’t exist any longer” in the modern world, General Sir Nick Carter has warned.
Speaking at the Cliveden Literary, the head of the armed forces stressed that it is no longer possible to draw a clear line between competition and conflict.
“The changing character of warfare has exposed the distinctions that don’t exist any longer between peace and war,” General Carter said.
“I feel I am now at war, but it’s not a war in the way we would have defined it in the past. And that is because great power competition and the battle of ideas with non-state actors is threatening us on a daily basis”.
War is increasingly waged online and in outer space, General Carter said, adding the traditional concept of battle only being on land, sea and in the air is outdated. “The key bit that will give you the edge you need is the way in which information connects [it all] together so we are properly integrated at every level.”
General Petraeus described China’s economic rise over the last 40 years as unprecedented in human history and both said that a revanchist Russia was contributing equally to the break down of international norms.
