People employed across certain industries vital to keeping the country running would be exempt from the draft and it is likely the same rules would apply if WW3 was to break out.

The last conscription in the UK was more than eight decades ago during World War 2 and, like back then, certain call-up ...

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has praised the “sacrifice” of British troops who were killed fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq ...

The war in Ukraine and a drastic fall in troop numbers has brought the conversation surrounding conscription to the forefront ...

NEWSLETTER (£) European leaders are still not thinking seriously enough about how peace should be made ...

Donald Trump’s deputy lashed out at a proposed Ukraine peace-keeping force led by the UK and France as ‘20,000 troops from ...

The British Army needs depth to be sustainable in war: both a second echelon to follow close behind the first, and structures to generate a third and subsequent ones. The Strategic Defence Review (SDR ...

The Taliban on Monday confirmed the arrest of a British couple in their 70s in Afghanistan after a plea from their children for their release. The four adult children of Peter and Barbie Reynolds said ...

“There’s certainly more than a 50% chance we’ll be involved in a war before 2030.” Great. This is the prediction of a politician with more than a passing interest in military matters. Martin is a ...

A Million Bullets is a timely account of the British Army’s deployment to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, from March to October 2006 (known as Operation Herrick 4). In his postscript, Fergusson makes a ...

The Taliban on Monday confirmed the arrest of a British couple in their 70s in Afghanistan after a plea from their children for their release. The four adult children of Peter and Barbie Reynolds ...

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