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Notes

1 HM Goverment, Global Britain in a Competitive Age: The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, CP 403 (London: The Stationery Office, 2021).

2 Ministry of Defence, Defence in a Competitive Age, CP 411 (London: The Stationery Office, 2021).

3 For more on this trend, see Justin Bronk, ‘The Problem at the Heart of UK Defense’, Breaking Defense, 13 September 2021, <https://breakingdefense.com/2021/09/the-problem-at-the-heart-of-uk-defense/>, accessed 22 October 2021.

4 Dan Sabbagh, ‘UK Servicewoman Killed in Missile Attack on Iraqi Base Is Named’, The Guardian, 12 March 2020; BBC News, ‘Man Killed in Tanker Attack Named as Adrian Underwood’, 4 August 2021.

5 Antony Beevor makes a strong case for understanding the Second World War as a series of local and limited conflicts that converged over time, gaining coherence retrospectively. See Antony Beevor, The Second World War (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012), pp. 1–11.

6 Donald Stoker, Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 44–80.

7 Charlie Hewitt, speaking at RUSI’s Precision Strike in 21^st Century Multi-Domain Operations Conference, 13 May 2021.