Report predicts growing threat from ‘swarm attacks,genetic weapons and cyber-warfareBritain could become increasingly vulnerable to attack from an array of novel threats including “swarm attacks”, genetic weapons, and cyber-attacks and original pathogens as hostile powers and extremist groups obtain more lethal weapons,a study by a Ministry of Defence thinktank warns.
The study, an attempt to spot future military trends called Future Operating Environment 2035, and also warns that the UK,“will face a wide range of natural and manmade threats” and it will be “increasingly difficult to distinguish between threats from state and non-state actors”. It concludes than even “limited tactical nuclear exchanges in conventional conflicts” cannot be ruled out.
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Source: theguardian.com