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The British Armed Forces are charged with protecting the United Kingdom and its overseas territories, promoting Britain's wider security interests, and supporting international peacekeeping efforts. The 37,000-member Royal Navy, which includes 6,000 Royal Marine commandos, is in charge of the United Kingdom's independent strategic nuclear arm, which consists of four Trident missile submarines. The British Army, consisting of approximately 99,200 personnel, the Royal Air Force, with 42,000 personnel, along with the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, are active and regular participants in NATO and other coalition operations. Approximately 9% of the British Armed Forces is female, and 4% of British forces represent ethnic minorities.
In May 2021 the UK announced a plan to slash 9,500 soldiers from the British Army from 82,000 to just 72,500.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56477900</ref> On June 28, 2022 Chief of General Staff General Patrick Sanders said at a [[RUSI ]] conference: “The war in Ukraine reminds us of the utility of Land Power: it takes an army to hold and regain territory and defend the people. It takes an Army to deter. If this battle came, we would likely be outnumbered at the point of attack and fighting like hell […] You can’t cyber your way across a river. No single platform, capability, or tactic will unlock the problem.”
An email sent from [[Hunter Biden]] to his business partner [[Devon Archer]] on April 13, 2014 contained information from a classified [[U.S. State Department]] memo one week before Joe Biden visited Ukraine to meet prime minister [[Arseniy Yatsenyuk]]. The email predicted an escalation of Russia’s “destabilization campaign, which could lead to a full scale takeover of the eastern region, most critically [[Donetsk]]":
