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...In a highly critical report, the House of Commons defence committee said that although the UK’s armed forces had “deployed above their capacity in response to the worsening security situation”, every branch...
...In the wake of the violence, Rwandan forces pursued suspected genocidaires into Congo....
...Jack Reed, the Democratic head of the Senate armed services committee, recently told the Defense Writers Group that Aquilino had done a “superb” job in his contact with the Japanese and that the current...
...“That is going to free up resources for North Korea’s armed forces and its nuclear weapons programme.” Additional reporting by Polina Ivanova in Berlin...
...The UK government has no “credible plan” to deliver the military capabilities it seeks and the country’s armed forces will have to cut some of their programmes unless overall defence spending is raised,...
...A committee of MPs warned on the same day that UK armed forces were underprepared to fight an all-out war....
...“We have pretty much reached our capacities — all the internal resources are being used to finance the army,” said Roksolana Pidlasa, chair of Ukraine’s parliamentary budget committee....
...But at the last minute, the term limit was scrapped at the request of Ukraine’s commander-in-chief of the armed forces Oleksandr Syrsky and defence minister Rustem Umerov....
...Halfon’s shock decision to quit as minister for skills in the education department came within hours of the resignation of armed forces minister James Heappey, who had announced earlier this month that he...
...Yet after decades of budget cuts, the readiness of Britain’s armed forces is increasingly coming into question, most recently by the Commons defence committee....
...The International Rescue Committee (IRC) recently highlighted seven other serious continuing conflicts in Africa....
...Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov spoke on Saturday about the German armed forces’ “cunning plans” which “became apparent due to the publication of this audio recording”....
...They also supported an amendment that would exempt some Afghans that have served alongside UK armed forces from falling within the scope of the scheme....
...The bill would allow the US to resume deliveries of desperately needed weapons and ammunition to Kyiv at a time when its armed forces are struggling to hold on to defensive positions in the east of the country...
...The bill allows only narrow grounds for appeal but in a small concession to its opponents, ministers gave assurances on Monday that those who have worked with British armed forces abroad, notably Afghans...
...“There is a dissonance between the UK’s military ambitions and its capabilities,” Sir Richard Barrons, former head of Britain’s armed forces, said....
...well as other members from the trade select committee....
...Even with a force of 150,000 that is possible....
...Israeli forces”....
...“The armed forces of Ukraine will continue to take measures to destroy means of delivery, control the airspace to destroy the terrorist threat, including in the Belgorod-Kharkiv direction,” the statement...
...In an often testy series of exchanges with members of the UK parliament’s defence committee, Radakin also defended the British armed forces’ own state of readiness — although he acknowledged the army was...
...In response to the House of Commons defence committee’s findings, the Ministry of Defence said the armed forces were “always ready to protect and defend the UK”, and that boosting recruitment and retention...
...The parliamentary defence committee last year concluded that military procurement was “well and truly broken”....
...forces....
...Former Conservative minister Robert Buckland rebelled against the government by supporting some of the Lords’ amendments, including one that had aimed to ensure that people who worked for the UK armed forces...
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