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Topic: British Army

British military is short-staffed, underequipped, strained. An EPL ad hints at the crisis

Europe is going through a major churn, ramping up defence investment to beef up security in response to Russia-Ukraine war, but the British armed forces are facing severe manpower shortage.

UK Army denies ‘KZF handler’ Jagjeet Singh serving in force. But, ‘image in media of British soldier’

Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav had said the banned KZF was controlled by chief Ranjeet Singh Nita in association with Jaswinder Singh Mannu and Jagjeet Singh, a British soldier.

British Army joins KDF forces to provide free medical services in Kenya

Medical outreach and care was provided to over 17,000 residents, with over 600 children aged less than 5.

Did Bose flirt with fascism? Both Modi govt and West are reading him wrong

Once overlooked by the secular establishment, Subhas Chandra Bose was eventually sought to be appropriated by communists, embraced by socialists, reclaimed by Congress, and adopted as a hero by Hindu supremacists.

‘Your service to the war changed my life’ — The love story of an Indian man in the British army

In ‘Raj and Norah’, Peter R. Kohli and Shaina Kohli Russo write about Rajendra Kohli, who left his chemistry studies in England to join the British Army in 1939.

Twitter’s Middle East editor is a British Military officer, claims report

Gordon MacMillan is a “part-time” officer with the 77th Brigade of the British Army which was set up to wage information warfare.

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.