Frank Gardner
Security Correspondent at BBC
BBC Security Correspondent. Author of Invasion, Blood & Sand, Outbreak, Crisis, Ultimatum, Arabic grad. BTO Pres.
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3 days ago |
bbc.co.uk | Frank Gardner
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, People gather outside the UK parliament protesting against Israel's attacks on IranBBC Security CorrespondentIs this, some will be wondering, 2003 all over again? In 2003 Britain joined the US in a highly controversial military campaign against Iraq in a quest to rid it of its supposed arsenal of "weapons of mass destruction". These turned out to have all been destroyed years previously.
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Frank Gardner
Iran is reeling from Israel's unprecedented attack - and it may only be the startFrank GardnerBBCIsrael's "Operation Rising Lion", as it calls its attack on Iran, is unprecedented. It is vastly more extensive and ambitious than anything that has come before, including the two missile and drone exchanges it had with Iran last year. For Iran, this is the biggest assault on its territory since the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Frank Gardner |Tessa Wong
Members of the Western alliance Nato need to prepare for a possible attack from Russia within the next four years, according to Germany's chief of defence. General Carsten Breuer told the BBC that Russia was producing hundreds of tanks a year, many of which could be used for an attack on Nato Baltic state members by 2029 or even earlier.
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3 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Frank Gardner
His comments come weeks ahead of a summit of Nato nations at The Hague where they are expected to discuss defence budgets, among other topics. Gen Breuer said that Nato was facing "a very serious threat" from Russia, one that he has never seen before in his 40 years in service. At the moment, he said, Russia was building up its forces to an "enormous extent", producing approximately 1,500 main battle tanks every year.
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3 weeks ago |
bbc.co.uk | Frank Gardner
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, US and Philippines warships conducting an exercise in AprilChina does not want to go to war with anyone, especially the US. But Beijing does have aspirations to be the number one economic power in the world. And that means flexing its muscles to rid the seas around East and South East Asia of their US military presence, so it can dominate the shipping lanes so vital for global trade.
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Tonight at 10 on BBC1, we report on the dangerous new conflict between Israel and Iran.
Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear sites and military leaders this morning. My assessment: https://t.co/ihheeTqx6D
RIP Frederick Forsyth, author of Day of the Jackal and so many others. I had the privilege to share a stage with him at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. Needless to say, the queue for him to sign people’s books was rather longer than mine! https://t.co/Cqx2AQyctd