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    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      UK defence spending
      Britain set to resume payments for army’s troubled armoured vehicle programme

      General Dynamics says it is owed $1.7bn for long-delayed Ajax contract

    • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
      Ministry of Defence UK
      UK military morale hit as ministers increasingly turn to army to fill civilian roles

      Intervention by country’s most senior military officer regarding regimental mood ‘unprecedented’, says think-tank

    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
      Japanese politics & policy
      Japan and UK warn of ‘sharp destabilisation’ in security environment

      US allies practise retaking an island as Taiwan tensions mount

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Ukrainian army recruits put boots on British ground to prepare for combat

      UK-led project trains troops in weaponry, battlefield tactics and cyber security at site in northern England

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      Ministry of Defence UK
      British MPs call for inquiry into SAS ‘death squad’ killings in Afghanistan

      Probe sought after BBC investigation identified 54 suspicious deaths involving one unit of UK special forces

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
      Travel
      The lonely churches of Norfolk’s forbidden zone

      When a huge military training zone was set up 80 years ago, residents were expelled and villages left to crumble — yet behind the barbed wire, four churches have endured

    • Friday, 11 March, 2022
      UK’s troubled new armoured vehicle puts army overhaul at risk

      NAO report says forces may have to soldier on with ageing equipment beyond 2025

    • Friday, 28 January, 2022
      News in-depthNorthern Ireland
      Amnesty row clouds Bloody Sunday 50th anniversary in Northern Ireland

      Victims’ families are still fighting for justice as UK government presses ahead with ban on Troubles-era prosecutions

    • Wednesday, 15 December, 2021
      ‘Serious failings’ in British army’s Ajax tank programme, review finds

      Report also reveals ‘deep malaise’ in UK government’s defence procurement culture

    • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      British armoured division returns to Germany amid Ukraine tensions

      About-turn just over a year since UK pulled out in move designed to help bolster Nato

    • Monday, 8 November, 2021
      UK government and generals criticised over efforts to curb harassment in army

      Lawyers and opposition dismiss outcome of emergency meeting to address bullying and sexual assault

    • Monday, 4 October, 2021
      Andrew Hill
      The army has skills that government clearly lacks

      Service personnel have helped in many civil crises and their decision-making process offers lessons for all managers

    • Sunday, 29 August, 2021
      Afghanistan
      Johnson praises ‘colossal exertions’ as UK’s Afghanistan mission ends

      But Labour claims ministers have ‘significantly’ underestimated number of Afghan citizens Britain ‘left behind’

    • Friday, 27 August, 2021
      Afghanistan
      UK leaves over 1,000 Afghans behind with airlift set to end

      Defence secretary expresses ‘deep regret’ but government now faces questions on foreign policy and protecting civilians

    • Monday, 2 August, 2021
      BA flight was ‘exploited’ to carry UK special forces to Kuwait, says former diplomat

      Anthony Paice says British military used scheduled passenger service to fly in intelligence team as Iraqi forces invaded in 1990

    • Friday, 2 July, 2021
      Northern Ireland
      Prosecution of only soldier charged over Bloody Sunday killings dropped

      Northern Ireland’s authorities also abandon plans to start proceedings against another member of the military

    • Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
      Ministry of Defence UK
      Defects with UK army’s new tank go back to 2019, minister admits

      Ajax armoured vehicle’s problems were flagged up 11 months before suspension of trials

    • Friday, 19 March, 2021
      UK defence spending
      UK looks to new ‘Ranger’ regiment to tackle emerging conflicts

      Unit modelled on US army’s elite Green Berets part of radical overhaul of military

    • Friday, 19 February, 2021
      FT Magazine
      Line of fire: what it is to be a man in today’s British army

      The military’s changing role has laid bare the need for its culture of masculinity to evolve too

    • Tuesday, 22 September, 2020
      UK politics & policy
      Former army chiefs attack UK move to limit torture prosecutions

      Legislation would create ‘de facto immunity’ for troops facing allegations of war crimes, they warn

    • Wednesday, 18 March, 2020
      Coronavirus pandemic
      UK armed forces prepare 20,000 troops to help in crisis

      Military in ‘high readiness’ to provide transport, logistics and engineering support

    • Thursday, 2 January, 2020
      Army targets Love Island viewers in new recruitment campaign

      Social media appeal hopes to attract millennials as troop numbers fall

    • Monday, 30 September, 2019
      Twitter Inc
      Twitter executive is British Army information warfare unit reservist

      Consultant advises specialist 77th Brigade on social media and Middle East

    • Friday, 16 August, 2019
      Public sector pensions
      Army pensions watchdog wades into taper tax battle

      Calls for concessions mooted for NHS to be extended to Army medics

    • Friday, 19 July, 2019
      UK public finances
      Theresa May to hand parting gift to public sector workers

      Above-inflation pay rise must be funded from existing departmental budgets

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