British army

The Polish government is to “forgive and forget” citizens who broke the law by signing up for the Ukrainian armed forces.

Armed Forces underfunded, unprepared for war, and doesn’t even have a plan in place should one come, the Chief of the Defence Staff said.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that while he signed a declaration of intent on Tuesday to deploy UK troops into Ukraine following a potential peace deal with Russia, Members of Parliament will be given the opportunity to vote on the matter before any soldiers are sent to the war-torn country.

Bid to get young and diverse people into the Army will see UK offering a ‘gap year’ from 2026, as a years-long recruitment crisis rolls on. 

The UK government has revealed that a British soldier was killed in Ukraine while testing an air defence system, in a tacit admission that London has troops on the ground in the war-torn country.

Nine recently-retired generals including heads of the British military and top NATO commanders made an extraordinary intervention.

UK military will be authorised to shoot down mystery drones in future, following a spate of incursions to European states.

More migrants have come by the illegal boat route than there are serving sailors, soldiers, and airmen in the whole British Armed Forces.

British government says the UK is ready to deploy troops “from day one” of a ceasefire should one be agreed in the coming days.

Britain quietly earmarked £7 billion to secretly import tens of thousands of Afghans under the cover of a remarkable ‘superinjunction’.

The former head of the British Army has warned that war between the UK and Russia is a “real possibility” in the next five years and therefore Westminster must invest to bolster the nation’s depleted defence capabilities.

British Army sergeant majors are being urged to stop shouting at junior recruits lest they upset their delicate sensibilities.

The UK, which is unusual in not having civil or home defence, will create a new local force to protect infrastructure like power plants.

Patriotism appears to be declining in the United Kingdom, with a survey finding that less than half of the nation would be willing to fight and defend their country for any reason.

The Labour Party government has called upon the military to help clear garbage from the streets of Birmingham as a continuing union strike has left tens of thousands of tonnes of trash lining the streets of Britain’s second-largest city.

Commentators reacted with seething fury over a perceived insult against the British Army by Vice President JD Vance.

The leftist government in Britain has come under fire from former military top brass over plans to use electric vehicles on the battlefield as a part of its green energy agenda push.

There are nearly as many civil servants in Britain’s defence department as soldiers, and more than the whole navy and air force combined.

A former British Army soldier had admitted terrorism charges laid against him over fundraising and equipment meant for the Taliban.

Ukraine war shows need to involve “whole of society” in defence, but public are deeply averse to notion of conscription a report finds.

The UK’s National Audit Office has recommended the Ministry of Defence “balance Ukraine’s needs and the UK’s strategic interests”.

The Prime Minister, a seasoned lawyer with a usually assured style seemed unsure of his words at times as he announced a new “standing army”.

24-year-old Anthony Esan has been charged with attempted murder after a uniformed British Army Officer was repeatedly stabbed.

Two military horses that bolted and ran miles through the streets of London have undergone operations at an animal hospital.

Shocking and unusual spectacle in central London as a group of spooked army horses charged through the capital.

Russia needs a stronger deterrence to stop its aggressive moves on mainland Europe and a UK reintroduction of conscription would go some way to foiling Moscow’s predatory ambitions, Estonia Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said Thursday.

Army must prepared to “rapidly expand” to field a “citizen army”, top general says, praising Euro states for bringing back conscription.

The British Army is now the smallest it has been in 200 years while in Germany the defence minister speaks of bringing back conscription.

Israel’s military has “achieved a significantly better civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio in battle than most — if not all — other armies,” according to former commander of British forces in Afghanistan Colonel Richard Kemp, who acknowledged the IDF’s success despite the fact that Hamas fights “from within the civilian population,” uses “human shields,” and “deliberately [tries] to force the IDF to kill as many of their civilians as possible,” so that the world “turns on Israel and falsely condemns it for war crimes.” 

An elderly British army veteran poppy seller said he was punched and kicked as he left Edinburgh Waverley station over the weekend as pro-Palestinian protesters converged for a huge sit-in.

After supplying the Ukraine war “stockpiles are looking a bit thin” and supplies of some key items have “run dry”, Britain tells the world.

Former top NATO man cautions si vis pacem, para bellum — if you want peace, prepare for war — as alliance faces “existential threat”.

Soldiers are being deployed after the UK’s firearms officers are handing in their guns after one of their colleagues was charged with murder.

British police have conceded the prison escape ‘terrorist’ may have had inside assistance in his escape, and may already have made it abroad.

An investigation has been launched into how a suspected terrorist was able to escape prison by clinging to the bottom of a food delivery van.

British Army soldier hung onto the bottom of a truck as it drove out of one of the UK’s largest prisons, where he was held pending trial.