Britain should focus more on Russian cyber attacks and fake news than major conflict'

Britain should focus more on Russian cyber attacks and fake news than major conflict'

Britain should focus more on Russian cyberattacks and fake news than major conflict, a think tank has warned, ahead of this year’s Defence review.

The government’s forthcoming ‘Integrated’ defence, security and foreign policy review should focus on the national interest to make sense of the “brew of complex and interrelated problems”, the Royal United Services Institute has said in a new report.

The return to state-based competition has seen Russia use unconventional tactics to attack the West, the report claims.

By Dominic Nicholls

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