Summary
ON AUGUST 18, your defence correspondent, Ian Bruce, revealed new figures showing the extent to which the army's main combat troops were facing repeated missions with little time to recover or retrain. He mentioned only complete battalions because the information sent to him did not reveal many deployments below full- unit strength.
Infantry overstretch is farworse, as a browse through the MoD website for Op Telic (operations in Iraq) and other overseas theatres such as Kosovo reveals. The readerwill discover units and sub-units of armoured regiments and artillery regiments serving on operations "dismounted" - ie, in the infantry role with no artillery guns or tanks (which remain in care and maintenance in Germany or the UK).See the full content of this document
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British Infantry Being Secretly Cut by 10%
They are serving dismounted because the British Army is so short of infantry.
The 4th Regiment Royal Artillery (4RA) is serving...See the full content of this document
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