The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George ...

For the first time, British Army regular troops have operated a high-powered laser weapon mounted on an armored combat vehicle. Soldiers from 16 Royal Artillery in Wales used a laser installed on ...

Exactly 250 years ago today, ragtag Patriot militias engaged British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord in what would become the first battle of the Revolutionary War, one against the tyranny o… ...

They had every reason to assume there would be no actual conflict, given past encounters with British army regulars. But that morning, in that place, the building tension between the colonists and ...

A rtificial intelligence, drones and a £1 billion investment in homeland missile defence are all part of the plans to keep the UK safe in the face of threats from Vladimir Putin’s Russia and ...

New soldiers should be offered a £10,000 bonus to rapidly boost troop numbers to deal with an increasingly unpredictable ...

The British Army has shrunk to its lowest level since the early 1800s. Years of relentless budget cutbacks have left it with just 73,000 active-duty soldiers.That's a far cry from the Chinese army ...

When British forces were sent to Helmand in 2009, the British Army had more than 100,000 regular troops. Now it is at its smallest since the Napoleonic wars, at just over 70,000, external.

America was not the only nation at war with Great Britain during at this time. France, Spain and the Netherlands were also at ...

The Army cut its high-level administrative HQ in British Army of the Rhine by 20% and removed one of the four divisional HQs in the 1st British Corps assigned to NATO. They absorbed the workforce from ...

Theses threats could see the British Army called into action overseas at any time as it boasts a 108,000-strong land warfare force, with close to 74,000 full-time recruits who will be watching the ...