DefenceTalkUkraine on Wednesday began calling up reservists into the armed forces and urged its citizens to leave Russia immediately as the pro-Western country braced for a possible invasion. The call was issued a day after Russia’s upper house of parliament gave President Vladimir Putin permission to send “peacekeepers” into two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/facing-russia-threat-ukraine-calls-up-reservists-78050/

DefenceTalkDefence Secretary Philip Hammond yesterday published the white paper ‘Reserves in the Future Force 2020: Valuable and Valued’, which sets out the plans to sustain and grow our Reserve Forces to 35,000 across all 3 services by 2018 by revitalizing them, reversing the decline of the recent past, growing their trained strength, and investing an […]https://www.defencetalk.com/reserves-in-the-future-force-2020-48279/