Britain To Have Smallest Army Since Napoleonic Wars -- Alexandra Evans, Passport/Foreign PolicyBritish Defense Secretary Philip Hammond confirmed in a statement to parliament today that the British Army will be slashed by 20,000 troops over the next decade as part of a new strategic plan called Army 2020. Nearly one-fifth of standing forces will be relieved of their duties as 17 major units are culled and many others shrunk in the effort to limit the army's force numbers to 82,000, its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars.
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My Comment: They are cutting the British military to a level that would make it ineffective to fight any future major war .... but not cut enough to make it lose it's ability to teach future units on what it takes to function as a military force.