Air Vice-Marshal Sean Bell, who served 32 years in the RAF, said Russia was no longer the threat it once was after two years of war, which has seen its forces battered by Ukraine.
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Throughout the Cold War, Britain's military planners thought long and hard about what was needed to beat the Soviets if World War Three ever broke out.