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Al-Araby
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced a radical shake-up for the British army, earmarking an additional £8.6 billion ($11.5bn) for new training, equipment, and a brand-new ‘ranger regiment’ dedicated to tackling ‘extremist’ organisations and hostile state threats. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told MPs on Wednesday that the Future Soldier programme aims to “to keep pace with the changing character of warfare our army must be forward-looking, adaptable and embracing of new ways of working as much as new weapons and technologies”. The programme will transform the army into a more “deplo…