The latest war preparedness, to fight any future war in Europe or elsewhere has been proposed in the Strategic Defence Review (SDR), 2025. "The threat we face is more serious, more immediate and more unpredictable than at any time since the Cold War," Starmer told workers and journalists at a navy shipyard in Scotland, last week. The government announced its plans for the military in response to a strategic defence review commissioned by Starmer and led by George Robertson, a former UK defence secretary and NATO secretary general. Reaffirming the UK’s stand towards NATO, Starmer said his government would make "Britain's biggest contribution to NATO since its creation. On the first of these, the uncomfortable reality is that the UK is currently involved in its fourth disastrous war of the past 24 years.