Military chiefs have drawn up a plan to cut the armed forces by more
than 14,000
reports the Times Defence Editor
Deborah Haynes, thus leaving Britain with its smallest army since before the Napoleonic era.
Military
chiefs have drawn up a plan to cut the armed forces by more than 14,000
and combine elite units of paratroopers and Royal Marines to save
money, The Times has learnt.
The three sets of proposed
cuts presented to Gavin Williamson when he took over as defence
secretary from Sir Michael Fallon [were] revealed [in early January].
The
proposals — described by a Whitehall source as “ugly, ugly or ugly” —
include cutting the army by 11,000 soldiers and losing 2,000 Royal
Marines and sailors and 1,250 airmen. The total size of the regular
armed forces is about 137,000. The army has a target size of 82,000 but
at present it numbers fewer than 78,000. …
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