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Evening Standard
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Tamara Davison

British army so depleted it could only ‘seize a small market town on a good day’ warns former general

The British Army is only strong enough to ‘seize a small market town on a good day,’ a former army general has warned.

General Sir Richard Barrons, a retired army boss who co-authored a defence review last year, suggested that the current British armed forces would fail to do anything ‘substantial’ due to its size.

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