The Strategic Defence Review 2025 - Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroad

The world has changed. The threats we now face are more serious and less predictable than at any time since the end of the Cold War. This Review sets out a vision to make Britain safer, secure at home and strong abroad.

This is a new vision for how the UK’s Armed Forces should be conceived: a combination of conventional and digital warfighters; the power of drones, AI and autonomy complementing the ‘heavy metal’ of tanks and artillery; innovation and procurement measured in months, not years; and the breaking down of barriers between individual Services, between the military and the private sector, and between the Armed Forces and wider society.