ASPA E-Books
Publication date: 1 June 2026
The UK faces a dual crisis. On the one hand, it has allowed its defensive capabilities to atrophy over many decades, yet it now faces its most existential crisis in decades and is ill-equipped to meet it. Our latest book, 'World War 3: Lessons from 2030,' tells the story of how Britain could find itself at war in 2030 and how it might fare and fight in that war. A year has already passed since the NATO Secretary General made his five-year prediction that Russia would be ready by 2030, and the World has become a lot more dangerous and unpredictable since. But this book wasn’t created to be a prediction of what will happen, it was written as a wake-up call to act to make sure it does not. Containing chapters written by five recently retired military officers with a collective experience of over 170 years, the book is intended to provide a wake-up call, not to what might happen in some dystopian future World, but what could happen tomorrow.
This short, practical and candid book is the product of a series of ideas and workshops from a diverse and experienced group that initially just wanted to make air and space power more accessible to all, and help those that needed to understand it better. It was started when a UK general election was still some distance away, but the snap election allowed us to make if far more relevant to the new Labour Government. A new administration that, for good reason, has had far less experience of the defence challenges facing the UK and her allies, and for whom the complexities of air and space power might be hard to grasp, but with little time available to do so. We trust that this easy-to-read book will help them and others better understand the key concepts and considerations behind the essential and critical air and space power the Nation needs now more than ever.
Publication date: 18 July 2024