London (ap)-British troops will be forced to rely on reservists and private contractors for the whole unit and narrowed its clip the number of troops, in the next few years 20000 defense minister said on Thursday.
In order to reduce the huge deficits, the British government was the army a year of 3.7 billion pounds ($5.76 billion) of the defense budget cuts of 8%. This means that the future military "difficult decisions", defense secretary Philip Hammond said, in the royal united services institute says.
"A regular 82000 102000 can have different structure," he said. "Some of the units, hard to avoid can be lost or will merge."
He said the army will need to think "innovation how to provide combat service support", and take more skills, reserve soldiers and contractors of between advantage.
He added that Britain will invest 180 million pounds ($280 million), the reserve force in the next 10 years. 20000 troops reduced, is expected to be completed in 2020.
John Hammond also said that Britain will have more closely with international partners, and looking forward to the others to "provide the tail, British concentrated provide teeth" defense.
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