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British Army Logo.png
Formation1660
Typemilitary
Subgroups• Force Research Unit
• Special Air Service
• Special Boat Service
• Special Reconnaissance Regiment
• Special Reconnaissance Unit
• Special Forces Support Group
• JFIT
Staff89,860
Exposed byStephen Frost, Rod Stoner
SubpageUK/Army/Assistant Chief of the General Staff
UK/Army/Chief of the General Staff
UK/Army/Intelligence Corps
The foreign enforcement arm of the UK government.

Size

The UK has the fourth largest army in the world.[1]

War crime allegations

Ian Cobain wrote for Middle East Eye in 2019 that:

“The British army operated rules of engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan that at times allowed soldiers to shoot unarmed civilians who were suspected of keeping them under surveillance, a Middle East Eye investigation has established.

The casualties included a number of children and teenage boys, according to several former soldiers interviewed by MEE.

Two former infantrymen allege that they and their fellow soldiers serving in southern Iraq were at one point told that they had permission to shoot anyone seen holding a mobile telephone, carrying a shovel, or acting in any way suspiciously.

The rules were relaxed, they say, in part because of concerns that unarmed individuals were acting as spotters for militants, or were involved in planting roadside bombs.[2]
Ian Cobain (4 February 2019)  [3]

Morale

Over 15,000 soldiers quit the British Army in 2016 "as commanders struggled against falling morale".[4]

 

Employees on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Kevin AbrahamDirector General of Army ReformWith particular responsibility for the development of the Army Reserve
Anthony BeevorSoldierJuly 1967August 1970Later became historian making the Official Narrative
Graeme LambDirector Special Forces20012003
Graeme LambCommander Field Army19 October 20076 July 2009
Mark LancasterSoldier4 December 1988
Robert LaycockSoldier19271947Leader of the British Commandos during the Second World War.
Robert LaycockChief of Combined Operations19431947
Geoffrey Tantum19591966
Harry TuzoGeneral Officer Commanding Northern Ireland2 March 19711973

 

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