The last decade has presented a formidable array of national security challenges: a global financial crisis; the 2011 Arab uprising and the ongoing conflict in Syria; Russian military attacks on Georgia (2008) and Ukraine (2014), and almost certainly the Russian use of a chemical weapon in the UK (2018); the persistence of the international terrorist threat, in mutating forms; and the increasing salience of 'cyber' as a significant vector of threat to a wide variety of vulnerable targets. The UK has tried to respond to these evolving threats in a structured and strategic manner. Since the first publication of a formal national security strategy (NSS) in March
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