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Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said that for the next 5 years, the world could be engulfed in wars.
Senior UK officials have warned several times that the chances are high of the outbreak of a Third World War.
Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said that for the next 5 years, the world could be engulfed in wars. He warns that China, Russia, North Korea and Iran will be the countries involved, as he adds that we were moving "from a post-war to a pre-war world".
The head of the British Army said UK citizens should be "trained and equipped" for a possible war with Russia.
Britain's former top NATO commander, General Sir Richard Sherriff, also said it was time to review recruitment.
But the specter of conflicts erupting around the world is not evidence that we are on the brink of another world war, military analyst Sean Bell told the 'Red Matrix' podcast.
He stressed that Russia's failure to attack Kiev and occupy the country within days means that "Russia cannot pose a real threat to Europe for at least a decade."
Calls for conscription were unnecessary, given that no nation can afford to maintain a standing army, air force or navy on high alert for a global conflict unless World War III is a realistic prospect.
The military analyst pointed out that the West "invested heavily in technology to enable the development of attacks and to avoid battles of attrition after World War II.
Speaking about the Middle East, Bell said there was no threat of a global war from the region either.
"None of the main stakeholders want the situation to escalate," he said.
Even as the US carried out retaliatory strikes for a deadly drone attack on its service members in Jordan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarked on another visit to the Middle East to support an extended Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.
The analyst also said it is likely to increase pressure to end the conflict./ Sky News
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