{"id":27657,"date":"2014-09-03T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27657"},"modified":"2014-09-03T08:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T13:30:54","slug":"britains-shrinking-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/britains-shrinking-armed-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s shrinking armed forces"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Secretary of State for Defence was asked in Parliament for a breakdown of the members of the British army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. The detailed reply<\/a> shows some significant changes:<\/p>\n

Royal Navy\/Royal Marines<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/th>\nTotal, all ranks<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\n38,730<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\n37,660<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\n35,540<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\n33,960<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\n33,330<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n

Army<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/th>\nTotal, all ranks<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\n108,920<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\n106,240<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\n104,250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\n99,730<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\n91,070<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n

Royal Air Force<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/th>\nTotal, all ranks<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\n44,050<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\n42,460<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\n40,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\n37,030<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\n35,230<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n

This may be the only part of British government spending that would actually meet the definition of “austerity”. For reference, the Canadian Armed Forces<\/a> have about 43,500 regulars across the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Secretary of State for Defence was asked in Parliament for a breakdown of the members of the British army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. The detailed reply shows some significant changes: Royal Navy\/Royal Marines Year Total, all ranks 2010 38,730 2011 37,660 2012 35,540 2013 33,960 2014 33,330 Army Year Total, all ranks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[145,31,30],"class_list":["post-27657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-military","tag-airforce","tag-army","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7c5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27661,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27657\/revisions\/27661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}