Following the crisis in Ukraine and Russia’s involvement in Syria, the world is closer to super power confrontation than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Now a committee of senior former British military and diplomatic figures comes together to war game a hypothetical ‘hot war’ in Eastern Europe, including the unthinkable - nuclear confrontation. The War Room faces a scenario that has haunted western strategists since civil war broke out in Ukraine potential Russian military involvement in the Baltic States of Latvia and Estonia. Like Ukraine these countries have sizable Russian speaking minorities, but unlike Ukraine they are members of NATO, whose founding treaty states that an attack on one ally is an attack on all of them. Because of this, western analysts regularly war game a situation where Russia seeks to exploit ethnic tensions in the Baltic and test the strength of the NATO Alliance.展开
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许瑞奇 Iris Li 郑斌辉 Stephen Zechariah 陈天文 林湘萍 洪慧芳 朱厚任 娜娜 沈家玉 Zaliha Binte Abdul Hamid 杨世彬 Fu Kuen Tang Benjamin Ng Xiao Jing Siti Khalijah Zainal Jennifer Chai Wilkinson Keerthana Kumarasen Kung Cheung Tak