Army To Be Split Into Two Forces As Major Restructuring Expands Special Operations -- Daily Mail* Troops to be divided into emergency response and long-term engagement branches
* Move follows plan to cut personnel numbers by a fifth
The British Army is to be split in two as military chiefs seek to cope with budget cuts and keep pace with modern warfare.
The new-look forces will shift their focus to covert special operations, surveillance, intelligence and cyber security.
The drastic restructuring comes as part of an overhaul that will see personnel numbers hacked down by a fifth over the next eight years, from 102,000 to just 82,000.
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Update: Revealed: plan to split Army into two forces -- The Independent
My Comment: The focus will be on Special Forces .... with the hope that there will be no major land wars in the next few years.
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