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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given his backing to what is being touted as the biggest investment program in the country’s armed forces since the end of the Cold War three decades ago.

Boris Johnson’s administration may scrap EU rules which have seen shipbuilding contracts sent to yards overseas in recent years, according to reports.

UK Politicians, members of the Royal Family, and military officers have been surveilled by a Chinese tech company, a report has found.

The United Kindom’s military has been drafted to help in the war against the Wuhan coronavirus, as the UK faces the prospect of a national lockdown.

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Royal Air Force has become the country’s first military service to open up all roles to women — including close combat roles. The RAF will start taking applications Friday from women interested in joining its ground-fighting

The head of the U.S. Army has made a thinly veiled criticism of the British military, implying the UK army is too small, leaving the nation exposed.

TALLINN (AFP) – British army equipment including tanks and self-propelled guns on Wednesday arrived by boat in Estonia, part of a NATO move to reinforce its eastern flank to deter a militarily resurgent Russia, according to Estonia’s defence forces.

British soldiers facing prosecution for alleged abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan may have the legal costs of their defence docked from their pay by the Ministry of Defence, it has emerged.

The number of regular soldiers in Britain’s army has fallen below 80,000, the lowest it has been for over 200 years, the latest manning figures show. The Army was slashed by the government from 102,000 to a target of 82,000

Two men who tried to kidnap an RAF serviceman while he was out jogging may have staged a dry run and undertaken reconnaissance around the base before the attempt, a witness has said.

The British military is losing highly trained personnel because poor accommodation is driving some of them to quit, MPs have found. The situation has been slammed as ‘disgraceful’ by a UKIP spokesman, who called for renewed investment in military housing.

Military veterans are lining up to back Britain leaving the European Union (EU), rubbishing claims by Prime Minister David Cameron that leaving the EU would jeopardise Britain’s national security. A former Army Commander in Afghanistan has said that, on the

The government is drawing up plans to pull Britain out of the Convention on European Rights and replace it with a Bill of Rights in a bid to protect British soldiers from being pursued by “ambulance-chasing” human rights lawyers. Over

Military chapels could be forced to conduct gay weddings, thanks to a Conservative minister who has demanded to know when churches using the chapels will allow the ceremonies to take place there. Gay marriage was legalised in England and Wales

The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is going on the offensive in a bid to secure cross-party support for airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria. He will meet with the French President to discuss military tactics, before laying out a

The people traffickers making thousands of dollars ferrying migrants across the Mediterranean have laughed at EU plans to take their vessels by military force, saying the ships are easily replaceable, and that anyway migrants are starting to make the journey

Britain is to send troops to Ukraine to help train their soldiers in the fight against Russian backed separatist forces. Non-lethal equipment will also be supplied to Ukraine as a show of friendship, Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed. Mr