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 potential Russian military involvement in the Baltic States of Latvia and Estonia. Like Ukraine these countries have sizable Russian speaking minorities, but unlike Ukraine they are members of NATO, whose founding treaty states that an attack on one ally is an attack on all of them. Because of this, western analysts regularly war game a situation where Russia seeks to exploit ethnic tensions in the Baltic and test the strength of the NATO Alliance.展开
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休·杰克曼 凯特·哈德森 迈克尔·因佩里奥利 费舍·史蒂芬斯 詹姆斯·贝鲁什 艾拉·安德森 金·普安公主 穆斯塔法·沙基尔 Bob Roseman 杰森·华纳·史密斯 罗伯特·约翰·加拉格尔 Eva Kaminsky Beth Malone 马特·戈尔斯基 Sean Allan Krill T. Oliver Reid Tom O'Keefe 鲍里斯·伦敦 Johnny Olmez Faye Tamasa