Chapter 4 – Protect Our People 29 •• Contribute to improved understanding of the world through strategic intelligence and the global defence network. This includes close and enduring work with our allies and partners during peace and conflict. •• Reinforce international security and the collective capacity of our allies, partners and multilateral institutions. This includes work to help shape the international security environment, and to strengthen the rules-based international order including through conflict prevention, capacity building and counter proliferation. This is covered in Chapter 5. The Armed Forces will also contribute to the Government’s response to crises by being prepared to: •• Support humanitarian assistance and disaster response, and conduct rescue missions. •• Conduct strike operations. •• Conduct operations to restore peace and stability. •• Conduct major combat operations if required, including under NATO Article 5. Joint Force 2025 4.38 We will ensure that the Armed Forces are able to tackle a wider range of more sophisticated potential adversaries. They will project power, be able to deploy more quickly and for longer periods, and make best use of new technology. We will maintain our military advantage and extend it into new areas, including cyber and space. We will develop a new Joint Force 2025 to do this, building on Future Force 2020. 4.39 Joint Force 2025 will increase our Armed Forces’ ability to work with the rest of government and internationally. We will enhance the Armed Forces’ capability to work alongside the security and intelligence agencies to disrupt threats in the most challenging operating environments worldwide. While our Armed Forces can and will whenever necessary deploy on their own, we would normally expect them to deploy with allies such as the US and France; through NATO; or as part of a broader coalition. The Armed Forces also undertake permanent tasks, including territorial defence, delivering the nuclear deterrent, and assisting the UK civil authorities’ resilience and ability to respond to terrorism. 4.40 We will be able to deploy a larger force more quickly. By 2025, this highly capable expeditionary force of around 50,000 (compared with around 30,000 planned in Future Force 2020) will include: •• A maritime task group centred on a Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier with F35 Lightning combat aircraft. •• A land division with three brigades including a new Strike Force. •• An air group of combat, transport and surveillance aircraft. •• A Special Forces task group. 4.41 When the Armed Forces are not deployed at this scale, they will be able to undertake a large number of smaller operations simultaneously. These might include: •• A medium-scale operation, often drawing mostly on just one Service, such as our current counter-ISIL mission in Iraq.