Telegraph: Louise Sandher-Jones, the Armed Forces minister, revealed the exercise would take place next year as part of a wider operation to test the UK’s resilience.
A cohort from the “strategic reserve” of 95,000 retired troops will be called into action “on a scale we haven’t seen for a long time”, Ms Sandher-Jones said.
The planned operation was disclosed as the UK seeks to put itself on a war footing amid fears that it could be dragged into a conflict with Russia by 2030…