The reform of the British armed forces may now act as a model for the police.
Douglas Young, executive chairman of the British Armed Forces Federation, said the situation was "absolutely terrible".
It is the latest in a series of embarrassing setbacks suffered by the British armed forces.
On October 1st the trained strength of the British armed forces was 173, 270.
Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to British armed forces, saying they were among the best in the world.
Peace-support operations, for which British armed forces already and rightly have an unparalleled reputation, are a very good example of this.
Henderson, the British Armed Forces minister, on Thursday cxhallenged Milosevic to explain why 600, 000-plus Kosovo refugees have flooded other countries.
He was the 59th member of the British armed forces to die in Afghanistan since the conflict began in November 2001.
Planned for more than three years, the exercise places British armed forces, including substantial naval and air force assets, conveniently close to the region.
The following day, the bodies of those killed were released by the British armed forces and were taken by Iraqi ambulances to a nearby hospital.
The secretary of state was speaking after a number of MPs had raised the role of Irish men and women in the British Armed forces.
The Tory MP insisted that the British Armed Forces was able to attract "some of the highest calibre recruits because they are able to offer some exciting and demanding career opportunities".
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The secretary of state raised a few eyebrows and got a few laughs in the chamber as he responded to a question about the role of Irish men and women in the British armed forces.
The head of the British Army, General Richard Dannatt, and the head of the British armed forces, Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup, have both said British troops are stretched by fighting wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
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It will also be an opportunity to recall the valor and sacrifice of the U.S. and British armed forces and their long tradition of standing shoulder-to-shoulder beside each other in defense of our liberties and shared values.
Mr Kemp said the British armed forces had already shown their flexibility and ability to fight across spectrums, ranging from the light forces used in the Falklands, to the heavy forces deployed in the first Gulf war.
Third, while the current focus of reform is on the police, changes are already under way in another notoriously racially exclusive British institution, the armed forces.
The armed forces' rules of engagement stipulate under what circumstances British forces are allowed to open fire, either in direct contact with the enemy or to prevent an imminent attack.
Mark Galeotti, a British lecturer on Russia's armed forces, says there is evidence that Mr bin Laden, while not the instigator of the urban bombing campaign, has offered financial help to its perpetrators.
After intervening to end the decade-long rebel war there in 2000, the British Army began retraining the Sierra Leonean armed forces.
The Royal British Legion Riders Branch is a motorcycle club for former armed forces personnel.
On Monday, assembly leader of the Welsh Conservatives Nick Bourne and Clwyd West candidate Darren Millar will visit the Royal British Legion Club in Colwyn Bay to publicise a new armed forces card.
" The Team goes on to note that, "As the U.S. took the lead with peace talks in Northern Ireland, the British could take the lead with unity talks between the Lebanese Armed Forces and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague laid a wreath on behalf of all those in the armed forces across the commonwealth who have fallen.
The Royal British Legion has opened a drop-in centre in Crewe in a bid to support armed forces personnel and their families.
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