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LONDON (AP) – The British government is warning military veterans not to join the fighting in Ukraine and says any serving troops who go there will be court-martialed when they return.

Gun salutes rang out in London and Edinburgh on Monday to mark the official start of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee year.

A UK migration think tank warned the government not releasing illegal migrant data will allow numbers will to rise without accountabiltiy.

The British Army has been tasked with building temporary migrant camps in Britain to house up to 30,000 illegal migrants from next month.

A young child tourist was apparently trampled by a marching guardsman while visiting the Tower of London on Wednesday.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced plans to double the number of women recruits in the military by 2030.

A British army general has warned that climate change could soon make it “too hot to train” at certain times of year.

Boris Johnson and General Carter are among those who have voiced concerns about the legacy of 20 years of war in Afghanistan.

Authorities at a British military base on Cyprus have hired 50% more customs officers and procured detection equipment.

Britain’s first Veterans Minister, now sacked, has denounced Boris Johnson’s Downing Street office a “cesspit” of “snakes” and “cowards”.

Britain’s inaugural Minister for Veterans has accused “cowards” in the Boris Johnson administration of stabbing Northern Ireland veterans in the back after he was ejected from the government.

This is part of the UK’s £24bn defence spending splurge, presumably to be financed from a Magic Money Tree, called the Integrated Review.

Buckingham Palace confirmed Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will not return to royal duties, and Harry will give up his military titles.

Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary and Biden fan Lisa Nandy MP backed calls for the British Army, Royal Air Force, and Royal Navy to be reforged as woke “human security services” which would be “gender balanced and ethnically diverse”

A city council in the UK is set to remove the statue of a British war hero after a Black Lives Matter inspired review determined that he represent colonialism and does not represent women and so-called ‘gender non-binary’ people. Following

A British army “information warfare” unit has been tasked with countering so-called anti-vaccine disinformation as the UK prepares to roll out millions of vaccines. The Defence Cultural Specialist Unit (DCSU) of the army’s 77th Brigade was founded in 2010 as

Over 50,000 potential recruits to Her Majesty’s Armed Services have withdrawn their applications in just the first half of this year after military brass ordered recruiters to target “snowflakes”, “binge gamers”, and “me me me millennials”.

Senior British Army officers are set to introduce a Diversity and Inclusion Directorate to enforce politically correct standards among the ranks of the armed forces and will hire a team of equality specialists to carry out the woke initiative.

British soldiers have been banned from taking the knee in solidarity with the far-left Black Lives Matter movement when they are in uniform, as they are bound to remain politically neutral.

Thousands of troops in European militaries have been impacted by coronavirus, including the crew of Frances aircraft carrier.

The Army will assist the NHS in establishing a temporary hospital in London, the government has announced. 

The chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation warned that police in London will struggle to enforce Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s lockdown measures, saying that the military may need to be called in if more police officers continue to contract the Chinese coronavirus.

Members of the British Army’s 101 Logistic Brigade have begun delivering consignments of personal protection equipment for medical staff to hospitals after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a strict lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic.

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for the world to “urgently redistribute power” so as to end gender inequality which he said “should shame us all in the 21st century because it is not only unacceptable, it is stupid.”

The United Nations has placed strict gender quotas on a British Army peacekeeping deployment to Mali in west Africa, demanding more females are sent under the auspices of a special bureaucratic directive.

D-Day veteran and former British armed forces chief Field Marshal the Lord Bramall KG, GCB, OBE, MC, JP has died aged 95.

The British Army is considering phasing out fossil-fuel-powered tanks, APCs and lorries in order to save the planet and to attract more recruits who are worried about global warming.

The British Army has seen a fall in strength for the ninth consecutive year, according to new figures released by the Ministry of Defence. 

Decades after the United States established the Department of Veterans Affairs, United Kingdom veterans are to have their own dedicated office for the first time after an announcement by the government Monday. 

In Ursula Von der Leyen’s appointment, we’ve seen the future of the EU; anti-democratic and militaristic.

The British government has raised the threat level for military and diplomatic staff operating in a number of Gulf states including Iraq over tensions with Iran, in a move that follows the withdrawal of non-essential staff from Iraq by the U.S. government. 

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has launched an investigation after a video appearing to show soldiers shooting at a picture of Jeremy Corbyn was posted online and widely shared.

Senior officers in the British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force have warned that the United Kingdom is being entangled in the European Union’s military integration schemes, and that the Prime Minister’s proposed Brexit deal with the bloc will undermine national security long into the future.

British military veterans have reacted with anger after prosecutors said they will charge ‘Soldier F’ with the murder of two men and the attempted murders of four others during the ‘Bloody Sunday’ protest in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.

A member of the British Army’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) reportedly exchanged fire with the Islamist terrorists who attacked a hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya, helping in the rescue operations.

One in five British Army personnel are not fit to or otherwise cannot be deployed overseas, while the force is still 5,000 recruits short of its “tiny” 82,000-man target.