How Finland Deters Russia with Tom Woolmore

This episode of Hunter’s War is a conversation with Tom Woolmore on how Finland is responding to the Russian threat, and what countries like the UK can learn from it.

With Russia’s war in Ukraine grinding into its fourth year and European defence officials warning of potential confrontation within three to five years, one small Nordic country has quietly become a model for deterrence. Finland shares an 830-mile border with Russia, has fought it before, and has built a national defence culture that the rest of Europe is now scrambling to understand.

Tom Woolmore breaks down Finland’s strategy of “deterrence by denial” — how it prepares its population, structures its military, and thinks about survival against a much larger adversary — and what lessons countries like the UK can draw from the Finnish model as Europe rearms.