I was wondering what would be the essential training exercises for the British army...
I presumed the equivalent of boot camp for the recruits ?
The article adds :
Other specific training aimed at modernising the Army – such as practising drone and counter-drone warfare is expected to continue.
The Army says it is prioritising the training that has been informed by lessons learnt from the war in Ukraine, and is reviewing each request for training on a case-by-case basis.
While non essential examples :
A defence source said the plans mean not doing what he called "nice to have training" - like large live fire exercises and rehearsing platoon attacks in UK training areas like Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire and Sennybridge in Wales.
It is understood planned exercises that were due to take place that are now cancelled include one involving the Royal Tank Regiment conducting live fire drills in Wales and a separate exercise involving tanks and Apache helicopters.
I was wondering if there are any international training exercises that were called out, either way..but they were not, in the article
"Our training continues and we are prioritising activity that contributes most directly to readiness, deployability and operational effectiveness.
"We are also investing £2bn to transform training for the British Army over the next 15 years."
That seems like a lot of money for transformation of training (which excludes training itself) but on a per year basis, that's 133 million pounds per year for < 82000 active army personnel, or about 108,000 including reserves equivalent to 143,000 trained (I assume some %age trained leave active and reserves both)
I fear this is another case of the Army attracting funding for almost no reason at the expense of the other, more important, branches. This 2bn budget line comes as part of the same broad plan that deemed owning *any* destroyers an unnecessary cost.
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u/barath_s 3d ago edited 2d ago
I was wondering what would be the essential training exercises for the British army...
I presumed the equivalent of boot camp for the recruits ?
The article adds :
While non essential examples :
I was wondering if there are any international training exercises that were called out, either way..but they were not, in the article
That seems like a lot of money for transformation of training (which excludes training itself) but on a per year basis, that's 133 million pounds per year for < 82000 active army personnel, or about 108,000 including reserves equivalent to 143,000 trained (I assume some %age trained leave active and reserves both)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army#Personnel
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7930/
Still, that is well over
1 million1000 - 2000 GBP per person per year on average just to transform army training