UK pledges additional $3.8 billion on defense spending, stops short of 2.5 percent GDP timeline

“The current British Army actually fields half of one heavy brigade’s worth of equipment, split between two, and one regiment of artillery,” Jack Watling, senior research fellow for land warfare at RUSI, wrote in a July analysis. The decline in size and capability of the force in its current state falls far short of a 2015 effort to deliver a “warfighting division of two heavy and between one and two medium combat brigades, an artillery brigade, an engineering brigade, an air defence group, a logistic brigade and an ISR brigade,” he noted.