British Army
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Iraq war inquiry to get under way...the new year. It was the final withdrawal of the last main body of British troops from Iraq earlier this year which finally cleared the way for Gordon Brown to appoint the inquiry his predecessor had for so long resisted. The five-strong... In this article: Iraq War, Detainee, British troops, Jeremy Greenstock, Tony Blair, United Nations, and Gordon Brown |
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New Kerala | November 15, 2009
British mission in Afghanistan disabling Al Qaeda: Gordon Brown
London, Nov. 16 : In a bid gather public support for the Afghanistan war, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to assert the deployment of British troops in that war-torn country has helped to disable Al-Qaeda this year. I...
In this article: Al-Qaeda, Gordon Brown, British soldier, Afghanistan, London, UK, The Guardian, and Pakistan
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Sunday Mirror | 6 days ago
WAR WILL HAVE AN END
...would not be a war without end. Underlining Gordon Brown's push for a timetable to pull British troops out of Afghanistan, the Foreign Secretary said he wants all soldiers home as soon as possible. But he warned that could only happen...
In this article: Taliban, NATO, David Miliband, Gordon Brown, British troops, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Afghanistan, and Edinburgh
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Guardian | November 05, 2009
Yesterday in parliament
...question time yesterday. Photograph: BBC Parliament Gordon Brown vowed to "step up" security for British troops in Afghanistan after the "terrible and tragic" loss of five soldiers. The prime minister told the Commons the Taliban had...
In this article: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Afghan police, John Bercow, Harriet Harman, House of Lords, and Taliban
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | November 04, 2009
'Rogue' Afghan policeman kills five British troops
'Rogue' Afghan policeman kills five British troops A "rogue" Afghan policeman shot dead five British soldiers in Afghanistan, in an attack that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown blamed on the Taliban as he faced renewed questions Wednesday...
In this article: Gordon Brown, British troops, Afghanistan, Afghan police, Taliban, NATO, Hamid Karzai, Afghan army, Britain, and US
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Daily Mail | 6 days ago
Army tells soldiers fighting in Afghanistan to buy off Taliban 'with bags of gold'
...Anstee and his wife Claire Anstee at the Lord Mayor's Banquet One recent poll found almost three-quarters of voters want British troops to leave Afghanistan within a year. Mr Brown used the lecture to again argue the case for Britain's...
In this article: Afghanistan, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Gordon Brown, London, Britain, British troops, and NATO
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Daily Express | November 14, 2009
Why should it take so long to fly our wounded to safety?
...to take them immediately to safety. Senior Army surgeons say it takes twice as long to evacuate British troops in Afghanistan than it did to fly injured US troops to hospital in Vietnam 40 years ago. The shocking revelation comes after...
In this article: British troops, Afghanistan, US, California, Surgery, and Chinook
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Government orders 20 Chinooks in GBP1bn face-saving deal
...deaths on helicopter shortages. The news came as the Ministry of Defence announced the death of another British soldier in Afghanistan, bringing the total number of deaths in the conflict this year to 96. The face-saving GBP1billion deal...
In this article: Chinook, Afghanistan, Richard Dannatt, Boeing, and Rupert Thorneloe
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The Press and Journal | 5 days ago
Soldier shot dead in Afghanistan
...captured by UK forces. Meanwhile, the father of the first British soldier killed in action in Helmand criticised a new Army report yesterday that ruled out equipment shortages as a factor in his son's death. Captain James Philippson,...
In this article: Afghanistan, British soldier, Royal Military Police, and Taliban
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MoD penpushers get danger money PLUS big bonuses
...than the minimum wage.' As a poll suggested yesterday that 71 per cent of voters want British troops out of Afghanistan within a year, Gordon Brown was preparing another 'vigorous defence' of the campaign. In a keynote speech at the...
In this article: Afghanistan, British troops, Royal Navy, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Gordon Brown, and Portsmouth
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The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England and Scotland and was administered by the War Office from London. Since 1963, it has been managed by the Ministry of Defence.
The British Army consists of 109,740 regular soldiers (with 98,560 trained), plus 3,640 Gurkhas and 34,000 Territorial Army soldiers, giving it a total of around 147,000 soldiers in October 2008. The full-time element of the British Army has also been referred to as the Regular Army since the creation of the reservist Territorial Army in 1908. The British Army is deployed in many of the world's war zones as part of both Expeditionary Forces and in United Nations Peacekeeping forces. The British Army is currently deployed in Kosovo, Cyprus, Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other places.
In contrast to the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force, the British Army does not include "Royal" in its title. Primarily this is because historically the British Army is the Army of Parliament and not the Crown. This position was confirmed by the Bill of Rights 1689 requiring Parliamentary Authority to maintain a standing army in peacetime. Nevertheless, many of its constituent Regiments and Corps are styled Royal and have members of the Royal Family occupying senior positions within some regiments.
- Name:
- British Army
- Part of:
- Ministry of Defence
- Commander:
- Gen. Sir Richard Dannatt GCB CBE MC
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