The concerns of the top brass have been echoed by the National Audit Office, which warned that the armed forces are 5,170 below strength as more personnel quit early. And the Commons Defence Select Committee concluded that the services were operating "in insufficient numbers and without all the...
U.S. Armed Forces Stretched Thin; Quality and Numbers of U.S. Diplomatic Corps Underwhelming
UK Armed Forces Equipment and Formations 2019 Published 8 August 2019 This is an annual publication which provides information on the numbers and types of equipment and formations of the UK Armed Forces. Equipment and formations statistics have been pres
The relationship between the Armed Forces and the society from which they are drawn has been an evolving one. At once representing but not necessarily representative of that society, the services have generally retained a popularity in the community despite, or perhaps because of a general lack of...
The PAFMM’s history stretches back nearly as long as the PRC itself.Comprisingmostly of untrained fishermen, the militia was created soon after the civil war. Like the PRC’s ground-based armed forces, the maritime militia followed the Maoist logic of ‘people’s war’; it also intended to...
2007). This is coupled with “the traditionally patriarchal structures of militaries and police forces creates a challenging intersectionality for women who serve” (Maffey and Smith 2020). Such factors are primarily responsible for the relatively low numbers of recruitment and the invisibility of ...
Feldgrau.com is a non-political German military history research site regarding the details of the German armed forces between 1918 and 1945.
Professional CV for Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen/Women and Marines leaving the Armed Forces (Army, Navy, RAF, Marines), and for Veterans
Continue the process of restructuring and reform of the armed forces, including, as appropriate, reducing their numbers. Tuleb jätkata relvajõududeümberkorraldamist ja reformimist, sealhulgas vajaduse korral vähendada nende isikkoosseisu. EurLex-2 (ii) for members of the armed ...
The issue of women serving in the British Armed Forces is both a topical and a politically sensitive subject, particularly with regard to the question of whether they should be allowed to perform combat roles. Indeed the issue has increased in salience in the last few years in view of the ...