'This is how ready the UK is for war - we have to wake up to dark times ahead'

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The UK military has been hugely depleted by successive post Cold War governments tapping into the peace dividend. Ex-NATO chief Lord George Robertson has blasted the “corrosive complacency” of previous leaderships, saying Iran marks a “rude wake up call” for the UK. And today the former Labour defence secretary plans to say in a speech in Salisbury that despite being “under attack” the UK is “unprepared” and “unsafe.” Despite Lord Robertson’s warning the UK’s military remains one of the