![]() ![]() Of the 149 thousand people serving in the UK’s armed forces in 2021, over half of them were in the British Army, which had 82 thousand personnel. There are four branches of the UK armed forces, the British Army, the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Marines. There are also more recent developments such as the UK government’s Strategic Defence and Security Review of 2010, which outlined personnel would be cut throughout the 2010s in order to modernize the UK’s armed forces. As the size of Britain’s empire declined rapidly after 1945, so too did the its global military commitments. Britain is involved in a far fewer conventional military conflicts today than it was in the past. There are several reasons why the number of personnel in Britain’s armed forces has declined. Ever since 1945 the size of the UK Armed Forces has been in almost constant decline, with the noticeable exception of the early 1950s, where Britain's armed forces increased by almost 200 thousand because of the Korean War. In the first half of the twentieth century, there are two huge spikes in the number of personnel which represent the final years of World War One and World War Two, with the British Armed Forces numbering 4.58 million and 4.69 million in 19 respectively. Sources: The information above was cobbled together from many sources, encyclopedia, dictionaries, newsgroups and anywhere else I could find.In 2022, there were over 148 thousand personnel serving in the British Armed Forces, compared with just 144 thousand serving in 2019. So units from a particular regiment may be spread around within an army. Regiment is not usually a deployed unit as a whole, but is more of an "administrative family" or permanent label of a group's identity. This column indicates what usually makes up the core of the unit - with larger formations there will be more supporting units as well such as units for headquarters, admin, signals, air-defence etc etc which will increase the overall number of men involved. The numbers given for men in each unit is more representative of infantry units than armoured units. These sizes (and sometimes names) will vary not only from country to country, but also by the nature of the unit and its particular circumstances. The table below is an attempt to summarise the relationships between and the sizes of various military units. ![]()
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