Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...
When Andrew Jackson arrived in New Orleans in winter 1814, diplomats were already negotiating peace. But neither the ...
We don’t have the people or the kit to do so. We need to remind ourselves that at the very end of the Cold War, in 1990, the British Army managed – just – to deploy a two-armoured brigade ...
The regular British army could be wiped out in as little as six months if forced to fight a war on the scale of the Ukraine conflict, a defence minister has warned. Alistair Carns said a rate of ...
Vladimir Putin knows he would be “overwhelmed” and lose a World War, the head of the British military has declared. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the Chief of the Defence Staff, claimed there is ...
Talk of wider war in Europe and the potential need for mass mobilisation or a "citizen army" may sound alarming. But the head of the British Army Gen Sir Patrick Sanders is not alone in issuing a ...
The story of the military watch ... watches of the Second Boer War. Elliot Brown’s Holton Professional range was developed in collaboration with a branch of the British armed forces, and is ...
The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war, the British army experienced great difficulty in finding fit ...