Tag: Armed Forces

• Tuesday, June 26th 2018 - 09:03 UTC

  UK government under pressure to increase defense budget to 3% of GDP

  

  The British government must increase spending on the armed forces if Britain is to maintain its defense relationship with the United States, MPs have warned. The Commons Defense Committee said without further investment, UK forces would struggle to maintain “interoperability” with the US military, diminishing their usefulness as allies.

• Monday, April 23rd 2018 - 09:25 UTC

  British Academics delivered counterterrorism course in Uruguay

  

  Two instructors from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst gave a course on counterterrorism from 9-13 April at the Uruguayan Naval War College in Montevideo. The purpose of the course was to provide an introduction to the key principles of the fight against terorrism and its practical application through the British approach and the study of a wide range of contemporary cases.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2013 - 16:32 UTC

  US/UK combined Chiefs of Staff Committee meet as a group for the first time since 1948

  

  Britain's most senior military chiefs met with their US counterparts as a group, bringing them together as a Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee for the first time since 1948. This time, the Chiefs were not discussing current or prospective operations but instead met to discuss the strategic challenges the UK and US militaries may face in the future.

• Monday, March 14th 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  Brazil’s military hardware in very poor conditions, alleged Defence report

  

  Brazilian Armed Forces military equipment is ‘obsolete’ and not in condition to be displayed in case of a conflict according to an official reports published Sunday the Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2010 - 23:56 UTC

  Latinamericans trust the media and the military, shows regional poll

  

  The media and the Armed Forces are among the institutions most trusted in Latin America, well ahead of the church, parliament and political parties, according to a regional opinion poll from FLACSO, Latinamerican Social Sciences Faculty.