The UK will need to restructure its military, establish a greater military footprint overseas and operate more like its adversaries if it intends to fight competitively in a new era of warfare. While its new Integrated Operating Concept recognizes the leaps in capability and technology in the conventional forces of China and Russia, "their goal is to win without going to war," British Army Gen. Nick Carter, chief of the UK Defense Staff, said at the Policy Exchange think tank in London Sept. 30. He said the UK's adversaries want to achieve their objectives by "breaking our willpower, using attacks below the threshold that would prompt a warfighting response."
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