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: potentia
l Russian
military
involve
ment in the Bal
tic States
of Latv
ia and Esto
nia. Like Uk
raine thes
e countries
have siz
able Russian sp
eaking min
orities, bu
t unlike U
kraine t
hey are mem
bers of
NATO,
whose fo
unding t
reaty states t
hat an attac
k on one
ally is an att
ack on
all of them. Be
cause of this,
western analy
sts regularly
war gam
e a situation
where Russia s
eeks to explo
it ethn
ic tension
s in the Balt
ic and tes
t the strength
of the NAT
O Allia
nce.　　F
ollowing the
crisis in U
kraine
and Russi
a’s inv
olvement in S
yria, the worl
d is clos
er to su
per po