Recruitment Deliberately Reduced to Shrink Army, Says Military Expert

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, an eminent war historian, told MPs this week, “If they don’t make progress and reverse these trends, it’s going to be awkward.”

A screen grab from the British Army's latest recruitment advert, which was launched on Sep. 4, 2023. British Army

The British Army is deliberately missing recruitment targets in order to slim down the British Army, a military expert has claimed.

Earlier this week Conservative MP Mark Francois, a former army reservist, raised the issue of recruitment at the House of Commons defence select committee and claimed the army was only reaching 80 percent of its targets.