Cold War Mentality: NATO Should Prepare for War With Russia – UK Officials

• Cold War Mentality: NATO Should Prepare for War With Russia – UK Officials
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  Senior British army officials urged NATO authorities to “revisit Cold War scenarios” and prepare for full-scale war in the wake of Russian achievements in the fight against ISIL militants in Syria and development of cutting-edge T-14 Armata battle tanks.
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  Former UK army officials said that the Russian military is more effective in comparison to NATO’s, calling on the bloc’s leaders to urgently invest more money on improvement of joint force capabilities and to “revisit Cold War scenarios, and this includes conventional, symmetric warfare in Eastern Europe,” The Sunday Express reported.
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  First, British Army officials appear alarmed by the ability of the Armata battle tank, which is an example of a new generation of Russian power tanks with nothing comparable elsewhere in the world. It can easily withstand any attack by NATO’s anti-tank missiles, both already in existence and those yet-to-be invented.
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  According to the Sunday Express, the T-14 has made UK experts “focus [their] minds” on the development of hardware, as their finest British tank, the Challenger 2, appears to be outdated and ineffective in comparison to the “Armata.”
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  “We have got issues with the tanks we’ve got and if we don’t do something about it we will have issues — what we will do is in discussion,” General Sir Nick Carter, head of the British Army said.
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