From inside the high-level Chatham House Conference, the message was clear. Global leaders, strategists, and security experts all agreed: the world we had has gone.

Old assumptions about peace, stability, and leadership no longer apply. Decision-making is becoming impossible in a world defined by chaos, disinformation, and volatility.

Martin Wolf of the Financial Times called it “crazy-making.” Lord Robertson warned: “British people are not safe.” Others confirmed: we are already under attack in the grey zone, below the threshold of conventional war.

The threats are hybrid, fast-moving, and dangerously misunderstood. And yet many leaders are still hoping for a return to “normal.”

This is not a future scenario. It’s happening now.
The greatest risk is pretending it isn’t.