![]() There are four branches of the UK armed forces, the British Army, the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Marines. There are also more recent developments such as the UK government’s Strategic Defence and Security Review of 2010, which outlined personnel would be cut throughout the 2010s in order to modernize the UK’s armed forces. As the size of Britain’s empire declined rapidly after 1945, so too did the its global military commitments. Britain is involved in a far fewer conventional military conflicts today than it was in the past. There are several reasons why the number of personnel in Britain’s armed forces has declined. Ever since 1945 the size of the UK Armed Forces has been in almost constant decline, with the noticeable exception of the early 1950s, where Britain's armed forces increased by almost 200 thousand because of the Korean War. In the first half of the twentieth century, there are two huge spikes in the number of personnel which represent the final years of World War One and World War Two, with the British Armed Forces numbering 4.58 million and 4.69 million in 19 respectively. ![]() In 2022, there were over 148 thousand personnel serving in the British Armed Forces, compared with just 144 thousand serving in 2019.
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