A National Guard For Britain?

Britain Needs A Citizen Army To Fight Its Wars -- The Telegraph

The balance between regulars and reserves in our Armed Forces should be rethought.

Why would one need or even consider an alternative model for the Armed Forces? A force which, in its current guise, has for the past 50 years served Britain exceptionally well; a force we are instinctively comfortable with.

It provided, along with its allies in Nato, a significant part of the shield that successfully checked Soviet adventurism. That model, on which our Armed Forces are still broadly organised, concentrated on providing the means for “mass strike” as the counterbalance to the arrayed forces of the Soviet Union. That time has now passed.

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My Comment: Budget limitations will force a rethink .... whether the UK military wants to or not.