News today showing that UK Army recruitment is up by 9% is probably a good thing. But where are the Army being used today in the various areas of the world?
A deployment map showing where the Army is being used was released by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) in January 2006 and picked up by the BBC in this article.
What I find interesting about these figures are just how many troops are still stationed in Germany, 22,000! These are said to form part of the so called Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) which according to the BBC article, the UK is a lead nation. A recent use of ARRC manpower has been through contributing numbers for a deployment in Afghanistan. Despite a high focus on exercises, perhaps a better use of some of these troops being deployed to Southern Lebanon might well have curtailed some of the mess that that country now finds itself in.
Tags: BBC, UK Army, Afghanistan, Lebanon
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