Slipped out without a great deal of fanfare in March. From the MoD; The cost comparison analysis looked at 5 types of army regular and reserve sub-units. It identified the cost of ownership and use of these sub-units which enabled…
The Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Nicholas Carter, recently gave a widely reported lecture at Chatham House. Many outlets concentrated on the 77th Brigade aspects but I think one aspect that was under reported was his comments on…
Before anyone gets over excited about the numbers it is important to remember that the planned column is for 2020, or more accurately April 2019. The table was in response to an FOI request on regimental manning, instead of a…
Whenever the MoD (or any Government department for that matter) wants to inflate the pitiful amount of money allocated to a project they call it a ten year plan and, obviously, multiply by that number. The SDSR and subsequent Reserves…
In the news today will be lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the fall in Army reservists [browser-shot width=”600″ url=”;] The data itself though will be mostly ignored Read it yourself at the link below [browser-shot width=”600″ url=”;]
A guest post from Phil In this article I aim to put across some of my ideas for how a new model TA might manage to bridge the risks inherent in its new role of providing even more of an…
A guest post from Phil… This explores a possible model for the TA of the future. It is based on the SDSR Army model of 2 light intervention groupings and 5 enduring operations groupings. Since this model is the current…