A multimillion-pound push by the defence secretary to transform how the UK rearms and fights is a "fiasco", with too much focus on changing structures instead of preparing for war, according to interviews and conversations with a dozen defence sources.
Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will today be accused of "corrosive complacency" on defence, in a damning intervention by the lead author of their own defence review.
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has cited the "fog of war" in defence of a follow-up strike earlier this year on a boat alleged to be carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea.
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Why a push to transform UK military is a 'fiasco'
