Jack Watling

Mm

... and this is b- also based on pre, uh, research from my, uh, former RUSI co- RUSI colleagues, uh, Jack Watling and Lawrence Thompson, which is saying that actually that's not as key a consideration.

Go for the requirements first.

But that said, I mean, again, it all comes back to how much ammo [laughs] you gonna buy.

Five percent of the world's oil has shifted along that.

Let's hear from Dr. Jack Watling, Senior Research Fellow for Land Warfare at RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute, the world's oldest defense and security think tank.

Jack is the author of the book, The Arms of the Future.

Good morning, Jack.

So I haven't done the maths to compare that geography to the size of Scotland, but it's a pretty big area, yes.

The West...

Dr Jack Watling is with us.

Jack, the West outside this theatre of operations...