11 December 2019

The likes of China and Russia fight wars in the shadows. Time for Britain to shine the light

ANDREW FOXALL

Political warfare is back. That was the key message from Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Nick Carter’s annual lecture, delivered on Thursday evening. Such warfare, he said, is “being conducted by authoritarian opponents” and “is attacking our way of life and our freedom”. He went to warn that it was “remarkably difficult to defeat without undermining the very freedoms we seek to protect”.

To those who have been paying attention, however, political warfare never went away.

For much of the last two decades, China and Russia have been conducting political warfare operations against the West. They have made used of a wide range of domestic and international instruments to persuade, intimidate, undermine,...

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