Military spending or investment in peace?

Royal Navy warship HMS Westminster (foreground) escorts one of four Russian vessels through the English Channel, 8 January 2018.An expansionist Russia, highlighted by Gen Sir Nick Carter in his speech on Monday (Report, 23 January), is one of several contemporary security threats, but it is not the overriding one.Climate change, terrorism, financial insecurity and inequality, as well as protracted conflicts and insecurity overseas also threaten our shared security.