Dad's Army division. The Strategic Reserve will be “held at low readiness and largely dormant, but will hold periodic exercises”.The army claims it will be “a key component” of the UK’s reserve forces.
But one former senior Army Reserve officer has compared it to TV's Dad’s Army led by the hapless Captain Mainwaring. The officer said the over-the-hill veterans will be wheeled out a couple of times a year to make sure they can still march.He said: “The concept of a strategic reserve is laughable – it is nothing more than a Home Guard.”Ordered by the head of the Army, General Sir Nick Carter, the review was led by Lord Mark Lancaster, who wants to see the role of the reserves expanded.Lord Lancaster – himself a reservist – proposes that.
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