Will Freer

Will Freer is Research Fellow (National Security)at the Council on Geostrategy.

Britain needs better missile defences

From our UK edition

When the Iranian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Seyed Ali Mousavi, said RAF Fairford was a ‘legitimate target’ on Times Radio this Tuesday, this wasn’t diplomatic bluster. The ballistic missiles fired by Iran at the UK-US military base on Diego Garcia travelled roughly 3,800 kilometres – the exact range needed to hit Gloucestershire from Iranian