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Armed Forces 2020: Reserves in Transformation
In announcing the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review, the Prime Minister has directed a review to determine whether the UK‘s ...
UK PONI Annual Conference 2012 - Nuclear Stability: From the Cuban Crisis to the Energy Crisis
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RUSI Newsbrief: Future Reserves 2020 Personnel: Mission Impossible?
23 Nov 2011 The Future Reserves 2020 report articulated a series of conclusions and recommendations for enhancing the capability, utility and resilience of the British armed forces dependent on greater use of the Reserves.
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Analysis: Rebalancing the UK's armed forces
21 Jul 2011 by Mark PhillipsThe Ministry of Defence has indicated the need for reservists to become integral to all defence tasks, resulting in the significant rebalancing of the structure of the armed forces by 2020. Undoubtedly there will be risks involved, but these are manageable provided there is political and institutional willingness to develop a more sophisticated approach to force generation.
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RUSI Journal: Some Territorial Army Problems
8 Apr 2011 The Director-General of the Territorial Army reviews institutional challenges in 1928
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Analysis: The Territorial Army: more than a manpower reserve?
24 Jun 2009 In recent years the operational demands placed upon the Territorial Army have moved beyond what would traditionally be regarded as defence of national interest. Professor Ian Beckett explores the growing reliance on the Territorials as a manpower reserve for the regular army and their declining traditional significance as an organisation for the projection of military values in society.
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RUSI Journal: What is Best in the Regimental System?
18 Oct 2004
The British Army has at various times stated that it intends to preserve that which is best in the regimental system as part of any organizational and structural changes that might occur in the futureReserve Forces Military Personnel
The British Army has at various times stated that it intends to preserve that which is best in the regimental system as part of any organizational and structural changes that might occur in the future
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RUSI Journal: The Territorial Army - The Need for a New Vision Statement
18 Jun 2004
Alex Tucker examines whether there is a need for a new vision for Britian’s Reserve Forces, by comparing and contrasting Haldane's Defence Review with the SDR in order to identify the fundamental principles that a new Vision Statement. might encompass.Land Forces UK Europe Defence Management Reserve Forces Military Personnel
Alex Tucker examines whether there is a need for a new vision for Britian’s Reserve Forces, by comparing and contrasting Haldane's Defence Review with the SDR in order to identify the fundamental principles that a new Vision Statement. might encompass.
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RUSI Journal: Reserve Forces - The Nation's Insurance Policy: How the Conservatives Should Repair the Damage
18 Jun 2004
Peter Viggers MP discusses the impact of the 1998 Strategic Defence Review and the increasing inability of the nation’s Volunteer Reserves, especially the Territorial Army, to meet the requirements that the nation has a right to expect of them.Reserve Forces Military Personnel
Peter Viggers MP discusses the impact of the 1998 Strategic Defence Review and the increasing inability of the nation’s Volunteer Reserves, especially the Territorial Army, to meet the requirements that the nation has a right to expect of them.
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RUSI Journal: The embryo of a wartime Army
2 Jun 1998
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RUSI Journal: Volunteer reserves: Useable and relevant
10 Apr 1998
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RUSI Journal: On the Best Practicable Method of Ensuring Efficiency in the Army, and for Obtaining An Effective and Reliable Reserve
1 Feb 1875
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