We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.ĮU officials admit safeguarding everything from nuclear power plants, utilities and computer systems to airports and hospitals is impossible. For more information see our Privacy Policy. ![]() Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. The incident highlighted hybrid warfare’s potential domestic dimension. Adding to the jitters, the break in a subsea communications cable that left Shetland islanders isolated last week remains unexplained. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, chief of the defence staff, warned in January that severing of communications cables would be viewed as an act of war.īut the UK looks unprepared. Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, has promised the UK’s first “multi-role ocean surveillance ship” will be operational in 2023. We’ve been reinforcing their security since the start of the war,” President Emmanuel Macron recently revealed.īritain is playing catch-up. “We have essential infrastructure which is beyond our territory – cables, satellites and oil and gas pipelines. An additional €11m has reportedly been earmarked for drones and underwater robots. Its 2023 budget allocates €3.1m for “ocean floor” defence. France worries transatlantic internet cables, essential for western security and communications, are in his sights. Thinking ahead, it’s logical – and prudent – to assume a desperate, heedless Putin will increasingly turn to hybrid attacks in Europe. Putin is losing on the battlefield and despite his nuclear threats, plainly fears a head-on conflict with Nato he knows he could lose. But he denies it, and they have produced no proof.Īs the realisation dawns that Russia’s president will stop at nothing, EU leaders wonder what he may do next to undermine support for Ukraine – and weaken their governments. Thus the EU and US strongly suspect Putin ordered the Nord Stream sabotage as part of his undeclared energy war on Europe. Russian non-military hybrid warfare takes many forms, all with an identical aim: the execution of “active measures” to harm, confuse, frighten, enfeeble and divide target states while maintaining plausible deniability. The Storskog route has become popular meanwhile with young Russian men dodging Putin’s mass mobilisation.Ī gas leak from the ruptured Nord Stream 1 pipeline in the Baltic Sea. ![]() “We can’t rule out further cases.” Following reports of drones buzzing North Sea rigs, Norway and Denmark – plus Nato applicants Finland and Sweden – are all increasing security and maritime patrols.įinland even plans to fence parts of its border with Russia, fearing both an influx of spies and saboteurs and a maliciously orchestrated illegal migrant surge like that on the Belarus-Poland border in 2021. “We’re seeing the consequences of the new security situation in Norway,” justice minister Emilie Enger Mehl warned after the arrests. Theoretically vulnerable, too, in this new era of Russia-Europe hostility, are vital pipelines supplying the UK. The obvious worry is that it could suffer Nord Stream’s explosive fate. Particular concern centres on the Baltic Pipe, a gas pipeline connecting Norway to Poland and other EU countries, which was inaugurated last month. ![]() And while the Oslo government is not directly accusing Moscow, it knows that makes it a prime target for covert hybrid warfare operations. Reference is made in the book to the accompanying website from where you can sign up and experience this amazing creation for yourselves.Since Russia cut energy supplies to Europe in retaliation for western sanctions – and following last month’s sabotage of the Nord Stream Baltic pipelines – Norway has become Europe’s biggest gas supplier. ![]() I guess you could call it a theme park for avatars. It's the nearest experience to actually being on the original set, which never was of course. The quality and content is absolutely stunning with inworld pictures taken using the internal game engine camera at over 6000 pixels in width. This is a real collector's item and a 'must have' for any Beatles and/or Yellow Submarine Fan. The live action being of course, images drawn and painted in sequence on animation cel. What they have achieved is nothing short of amazing when you consider that the original film only contained two dimensional backgrounds upon which the live action took place. This book explains how they set about this monumental task. Pete Clements and Leslie Moore have recreated 3D representations of most of the scenes and characters from this iconic movie in two virtual worlds. This book is about two 3D Designers' 50th Anniversary Tribute to, and in Celebration of, the 1968 Animated Musical Fantasy Adventure, 'Yellow Submarine'.
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