Lord George Robertson is a former British defence secretary and former NATO secretary-general. He led the team of three outside figures who wrote Britain's 2025 strategic defence review, a 140-page document. The team handed a first draft to ministers in late 2024; several drafts and battles with the Treasury followed. Lord Robertson described the review as "genuinely transformative", though critics questioned whether the spending commitments would match the ambitions.
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."