What's the position of intelligence in defence? Figuring out your enemy has at all times been important in conventional warfare, however with the
What’s the position of intelligence in defence? Figuring out your enemy has at all times been important in conventional warfare, however with the daybreak of digital know-how and social media, defence appears to have taken on a special character – one the place info isn’t just important to battle and peace, however its defining attribute.
Our relationships with Russia is a living proof – although we’re not at battle, the British authorities is consistently battling info assaults from Moscow – whether or not within the type of disinformation campaigns, or cyber assaults.
To win on this new age of defence, Britain should set up what some have known as ‘info benefit’. So how properly outfitted are we?
To reply this query, The Spectator has partnered with Leidos, a know-how, engineering, and science options and companies supplier, within the newest Spectator Radio particular. On the podcast, Katy Balls speaks to Professor Peter Roberts, Director of Navy Sciences at RUSI; Dominic Nicholls, the Telegraph’s Defence and Safety Correspondent; and Simon Fovargue, the UK and Europe chief government of Leidos, which is sponsoring this podcast.