The Big Bluff | The Wargame Ep 7
The Wargame
Sky News
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this final episode, discover what happens as the threat from Russia returns and the UK attempts to rearm.
Join us for The Wargame: Decoded on January 29th in London.
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Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?
The Wargame from Sky News and Tortoise imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-life former ministers, military chiefs and other experts to figure out how to defend the country.
Written and presented by Sky News' security and defence editor, Deborah Haynes.
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Come to “The Wargame: Decoded” - our live event in January 2026.
It will put you in the mind of the people who took part. Deborah Haynes and some of our participants, including Sir Ben Wallace, Amber Rudd and Jack Straw, will talk through the decisions they made, the pressures they felt - and there’s chance to experience some of the key moments of the Game for yourself.
How would the UK respond in a crisis? And how prepared are we?
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| 0:46.2 | Hello, it's Deborah Haynes here, and thank you for downloading these new episodes of the war game. |
| 0:51.5 | I also wanted to tell you about our one-off live event happening in London in January. |
| 0:57.2 | The wargame decoded will put you in the mind of the people who took part. Some of our participants, including Sabin Wallace, Amber Rudd and Jack Straw, will be with me |
| 1:02.8 | on stage to talk through the decisions they made, the pressures they felt, and will let you |
| 1:08.4 | experience some of the key moments of the game for yourself. How would |
| 1:12.5 | the UK respond in a crisis and how prepared are we? Join us for the war game decoded on January |
| 1:20.5 | the 29th in London. The details are in the episode notes. We've been tracking defence cuts and bad spending decisions since the end of the Cold War, |
| 1:33.3 | but what about the impact they're having on the UK's ability to fight? |
| 1:38.3 | Understanding that better was a key reason for running the war game. |
| 1:42.3 | We have six type 45s. |
| 1:45.0 | We have one at sea. |
| 1:47.0 | Where are the others, please? |
| 1:49.0 | The others are in refit. |
| 1:51.0 | A big takeaway for me was the limitation of the UK's air defences. |
| 1:57.0 | As we heard, six large warships called Type 45 destroyers are the only platform in the UK |
| 2:03.8 | armed forces that can shoot down incoming ballistic missiles. |
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