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Britain has been warned to boost its defence spending to 4 percent as "we are on the cusp of another World War", a US official said.
US national security adviser General HR McMaster also told LBC's Andrew Marr that the UK should invest in an Iron Dome-style air defence system.
He said: "How about 4 percent? That would be a historic low relative to Cold War levels.
"I think it's quite urgent for the United Kingdom, the United States, for all nations to invest more in defence.
"What we've seen is we have a huge gap in our defence, industrial base, and in the capacity of all of our services, as well as suffering from a bow wave of deferred modernization.
"So, I go back to what George Marshall said about the lead into World War II, he said, ‘When you have the time, you don't have the money. And when you have the money, you don't have the time.'
"So, it's important, I think, to spend now on defence, recognising that it's a heck of a lot cheaper to prevent a war than to have to fight."
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