New UK 'integrated operating concept'. "Expensive, crewed platforms that we cannot replace and can ill afford to lose will be increasingly vulnerable to swarms of self-coordinating smart munitions perhaps arriving at hypersonic speeds or ... from space" gov.uk/government/pub…
"The economics of warfare are changing the balance between platforms and weapons, and between crewed and uncrewed systems. In short, we face an inflection point between the Industrial Age and the Information Age" gov.uk/government/pub…
"NATO remains central to the pursuit of our strategic end ... But the centrality of NATO does not mean ‘NATO Only’. We must look beyond NATO to other alliances, giving real meaning to interoperability and burden sharing ..." gov.uk/government/pub…
"our own respect for the rules, conventions and protocols of war are a centre of gravity which must be protected. But the pace of technological change & the blurring of ‘peace’ and ‘war’ means that our legal, ethical and moral framework needs updating ..." gov.uk/government/pub… 
"It is clearly not possible to immediately abandon the current force structure and create a bespoke one from scratch. Important operations continue, legacy programmes and platforms retain utility" gov.uk/government/pub…
List of what the UK military deems to be the likely characteristics of "sunrise" capabilities, based around idea of "intense competition between hiding and finding". gov.uk/government/pub…
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