Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times,
British Defense Secretary Wes Streeting has said the country must be ready for war in 1,000 days, after the government advised citizens to stock up on essential supplies.
British Defense Secretary Wes Streeting (L) and U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shake hands at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Oct. 15, 2026. Finn Gomez/Getty ImagesWriting in the Telegraph over the weekend, Streeting warned that the UK's enemies could be ready to launch an attack on the UK by 2030.
He wrote: "Our adversaries' willingness to harm us is not new. What has changed is their capacity. By 2030, their force strength and war economy could put them in a position to attack.
"That gives us a little over 1,000 days to complete our mission: to be ready with our allies to fight and win."
Streeting said the danger may not come through conventional military action, warning that hybrid war tactics - such as disrupting technology or disinformation campaigns - also pose a threat.
'Sabotage and Hostile Acts'
"The gravest dangers of the 20th century are returning, armed with the technologies of the 21st. But the threat to Britain is not simply one of conventional warfare, or Russian tanks rolling across our borders. It is also the growing
