The United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson has recently claimed that the tripartite alliance of the U.S., Australia, and the U.K. (AUKUS) is fundamentally a big step forward for global security. He likened it as three like-minded allies building a kind of new technology sharing partnership. Whether this is just a tripartite relationship concerning military equipment and technology, or if it will further deepen into a comprehensive cooperative relationship, it still needs to be observed. However, as Churchill said in his Iron Curtain Speech that the relationship between the Great Britain and the United States was in a kind of "special relationship", one can say this is true in the recent tripartite deal as well.

On the surface, the strength of the British military is far inferior to that of the United States. However, ANBOUND’s research report on international armed forces indicates that the size of the security industry controlled by the United Kingdom is with hundreds of thousands military personnel, even more than the strength of the U.S. military. Therefore, the actual military power that UK can mobilize is often underestimated by the outside world.