Gen Barrons, who served as Joint Forces commander until 2016, warned that “the most profound change for 150 years” was needed to ensure that robotics, autonomous weapons and Artificial Intelligence took centre stage in military policy.
But while the Ministry of Defence knew what had to be done, there was no political will to drive these essential changes through.
“In 1904 Lord Esher led a review of the British Army after its experiences in the Boer War. Politics forced a military transformation which set it up for the First World War. Who is today’s Lord Esher?
“We are fiddling around in the margins of a broken defence programme. It’s a political failure.”
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