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British Army runs secret wargames under central London

(Photograph by Sgt Sam Terry, UK Ministry of Defence. Crown copyright 2026)

By Tony Grew

The British Army covertly took over a disused part of the London Underground in central London to plan a NATO military response to possible future Russian attacks.

Hundreds of British soldiers took part in what the army called “one of the most ambitious military exercises in a generation” in the disused platforms of Charing Cross Underground station.

Arrcade Strike was described as “a major command post exercise run by the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), which is NATO’s deployable corps headquarters, led by the British Army”.

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