The UK released on 2 June 2025 an ambitious defense review, reorienting its armed forces toward “warfighting readiness” to deter Russian aggression, Breaking Defense reports.
Although filled with dozens of recommendations, the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) is headlined by plans to acquire “up to” a dozen nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSN) under the trilateral AUKUS program, new investments in AI, long range weapons, cyber capabilities and a major warfighting concept inspired by lessons learned from the Ukraine war.
