British Defense Minister announces cancellation of 17 military units in order to reduce expenditures

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British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond abolition of 17 basic unit in the army, leading to the loss of about 20,000 jobs by 2020.

Under the current plan, the army reduced the number of troops will drop from 102,000 in 2010 to 82,000 by 2020., which means that it will be half of what it was during the cold war when housed 163000 in 1978.

Hammond told the Commons that "infantry will lose 5 battalions in combat units, but it will be stronger and better equipped combat effectiveness."

The Defense Minister said that Britain will maintain effective military force and well equipped but rely heavily on reserve soldiers and officers and cooperation with allies and civic contractors.

Says BBC anchors, Jonathan Bell, the strategic thinking of the army of 2020 driven by one of the rising stars in the army General nklos Carter, but this review is driven by the idea of reducing expenditure.

Says the BBC that the army will be divided into two "reaction force" which has highly trained soldiers trained and ready to be deployed quickly, "Adaptive forces which includes ordinary soldiers and others retained.

This forces the tasks the honorific and traditional obligations as a protection of the Falklands for example with "ISAF" could send small forces to do training and consultancy missions and peacekeeping in different parts of the world.

And the Lord said, who was condemned as Commander of the army in the period 2006-2009, the BBC said the retrenchment was disappointing for the army.

He said at least 11,000 people who expect to spend their careers in the army would move into civilian life and that those in need of assistance and facilities necessary for this transition and the skills they learned in the military must be recognized.

Professor Michael Clarke, Director of the Royal United Services Institute, said the new army would be able to go to certain places of high level function faster but for long periods will not be easy unless the Government was willing to spend more money.

"They are trying to build an army capable of rapid expansion and shrinking fast.

Says member of Parliament, Bob Stewart, a former Colonel in the army, he upset for this action, he was not in favour of this decline in spending is believed to reduce the army to 8200 turning the census to the army is too small.

Stewart adds: "the correct procedure is to have us more armed forces but our problem is how to finance these forces and we prepare her with sophisticated weapons."

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Syria: killing at least 50 people and continuing military operations in Homs idleb

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Maude declares his intention to "restructure" the mission to Syria

President of the International Observer Mission in Syria declares its intention of General Robert Mudd "restructuring" mission, allowing them "to do certain specific activities for a longer period, to be determined to resume its suspended mid-June.

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He said the Syrian Observatory for human rights said the number of civilian dead exhibition by Syrian security forces had risen to 52 people.

The Observatory said that among the dead were 20 people perished in edleb after shelling the town of ma'arrat Al-Numan Brive Idlib.

Military operations continued in scattered areas in Syria where the disciplined forces shelled several regions of idleb Northwestern including village transformation.

Syrian opposition activists said that several districts in the city of Homs since early morning shelling focused on areas where gather the armed elements of the Syrian army.

And the shelling by jouret Chiyah district activists target regular forces shelled in the past few days.

Comes with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, his determination to fight what he called terrorism and against his country.

Assad said in an interview with the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, published Thursday, could have been overthrown long like Shah Iran unless it has the support of the Syrian people.

"Who would have thought everyone I will fall at a specific time. They are all in their accounts. "

Assad stressed that Syria comes under attack from Islamic militants sent by Arab States do not wish a blessing to his country and subjected to the threat because of hostility and Western Turkey.

Assad said "big game against Syria was much greater than we expected ... The aim is to break up Syria or ignite a civil war. The fight against terrorism will continue to decisively in the face of this situation. And we will win on terror "g

Meanwhile, the head of the international observers in General Robert Mudd Thursday Syria would "restructure" the mission, allowing them "to do certain specific activities for a longer period, to be determined to resume its suspended mid-June.

Maud said at a press conference in Damascus that "we are in the process of merging in the mission to provide better support for the Syrian people in the coming days. We will strengthen our presence through regional field teams, which will give us greater flexibility and effectiveness in the work in facilitating political dialogue and projects. "

He's the "escalation of violence unprecedented stage of our ability has hampered surveillance and verification and acknowledgement, and prevented us assistance in the dialogue at the local level. It is difficult for us to basically do our tasks with priority assigned to us. For those reasons, the decision to suspend our activities, with my intention to resume as soon as the Parties renewed their commitment to a permanent cessation of violence and its commitment to implementing the six-point plan ".

Maud says that the observers were monitoring the implementation of the cessation of violence

He's that when the Security Council adopted a resolution to send a mission to Syria, the decision was taken at the meeting of the parties to the conflict of their obligations to stop violence in all its forms. It did not send the Security Council mission to stop the violence or escalate control, but also to monitor the implementation of the cessation of violence by the parties.

In the absence of renewal of the clear commitment to a permanent cessation of all forms of violence and the absence of a viable political process, that would, according to 's, to reduce further the Mission of its functions in accordance with its mandate.

He's talking by saying: "we have confirmed that members of your workgroup must create conditions for a peaceful settlement, to achieve this, stop the bloodshed. The violence continued and increased civilian casualties, either dead or trapped in the line of fire, it is difficult for a peaceful transition. "

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