Slashing 9,500 soldiers from the British Army after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “madness” and could “break” what remains, a former Chief of the General Staff warned today.
General Lord Richard Dannatt feared cutting troop numbers from 82,000 to just 72,500 will pile unsustainable pressure on what is left of the force.
“It’s a mere fact of life, we will break the remainder of our Army if our Army is not large enough, trained well enough and equipped well enough to do what the Government of the day wants us to do,” the retired officer, who was head of the Army during operations in Afghanistan, told Sky News.
