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The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force. As of 1 July 2024, the British Army comprises 74,296 regular full-time personnel, 4,244 Gurkhas, 25,934 volunteer reserve ...
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The term ‘UK Regular Forces’ (or UK Regulars) is a measure of the UK armed forces’ permanent personnel, including Nursing Services staff. Of the 138,120 UK Regular Forces (trained and untrained) personnel as of 1 April 2024, 32,000 were in the Royal Navy or Royal Marines, 75,320 in the Army and 30,800 in the RAF.
Nov 2, 2021 · The total size of the full-time UK Armed Forces (trained and untrained) on 1 July 2021 was just under 159,000. Most personnel were within the Army (56%) with the remainder being equally split between the Royal Navy/Royal Marines (RN/RM) and the Royal Air Force (RAF).
The British Armed Forces consist of: the Royal Navy, a blue-water navy with a fleet of 66 commissioned ships, together with the Royal Marines, a highly specialised amphibious light infantry force; the British Army, the UK's principal land warfare branch; and the Royal Air Force, a technologically sophisticated air force with a diverse operationa...
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In January 2023: 1. The full-time trade trained strength of the army was 75,710. This was 2.2% smaller compared with the previous year. 2. There were 190,170 service personnel in the UK forces. This was smaller by 3.5% compared with the previous year. The total figure includes both trained and untrained personnel. 3. The combined full-time trained ...
In November 2021, the government published ‘Future soldier: Transforming the British Army’, which put the size of the army at 73,000 trained regulars. This was slightly higher than a figure set in March 2021. The Ministry of Defence’s command paper ‘Defence in a competitive age’ had confirmed that the full-time trained strength of the army would be...
The government’s ‘Integrated review refresh 2023’ (IRR) was published on 13 March 2023. On the same day, the government announced it would provide £5bn of additional funding to defence over the financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25. It also said its ambition was to increase defence spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product in the longer term. Follow...
In January 2023, the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee published a report entitled ‘UK defence policy: From aspiration to reality?’. The committee agreed with the government that the integrated review needed to be re-examined in the light of the war in Ukraine. It argued the “strategic assumptions” on which the previous i...
House of Lords Library, ‘Resilience of the UK armed forces’, 19 January 2023House of Lords Library, ‘Impact of the conflict in Ukraine: UK defence and the integrated review’, 26 May 2022Aug 29, 2024 · The number of applications to the British Army Regular Forces in the 12 months to 31 Dec 2023 was 96,050, an increase of 58.2 per cent compared to the 12 months to 31 Dec 2022 (60,720).
The British army is already the smallest it's been in 400 years. And it's about to get even smaller. A cut in the number of troops is expected in a defence review, due to be published next...
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