Your definitive guide to the UK's radical new defence review

Today’s landscape of the UK armed forces is dramatically different than it was 15 years ago. In that time, the British Army, Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy (RN) have arguably suffered through multiple defence reviews that enforced a raft of personnel and equipment cuts in a bid to save costs and shift the posture of the armed forces to a more modern era.

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