At Thursday’s session of the Commons Select Defence Committee, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (DCDS) Lieutenant General Sir Rob Macgowan asserted that the British army was ready to meet the ...

In the battlefield conditions of WW1 this meant an average of 500 rounds ... Momentum shifted for British forces after the founding of the Machine Gun Corps (MGC) in late 1915.

Mesopotamia (now Iraq), WW1. A prolonged campaign saw British and Allied forces capture key cities and territories in Ottoman-controlled areas. On 11 March 1917, British forces captured Baghdad.

UK special forces are made up of several elite military units with distinct areas of expertise, and are regarded to be among the most capable in the world. The British government has a policy of ...

The MoD abandoned an effort to enforce restrictions on mentioning the SAS in an inquiry into the operations The Ministry of Defence has confirmed for the first time that UK Special Forces are at ...

Britain’s Armed Forces are not ready to fight a war, Defence Secretary John Healey has sensationally admitted. Mr Healey said the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force have “become very ...

Healey admitted this week that the British military had become “hollowed out”, which he told Politico was due to a lack of investment by the last Tory government. He said the UK armed forces ...

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