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• Cutting total manpower by approximately 18% to around 255,000 (120,000 British Army; 60,000 Royal Navy; 75,000 Royal Air Force)

British Army

• Halving the troop strength in Germany by replacing the British Army of the Rhine with British Forces Germany in 1994.
• Several British Army regiments amalgamated:

• The Highlanders
• The Queen's Own Highlanders
• The Gordon Highlanders
• The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
• The Queen's Regiment
• The Royal Hampshire Regiment
• The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
• The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment
• The Gloucestershire Regiment
• The Royal Gurkha Rifles
• 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles
• 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles
• 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles
• 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
• The Royal Irish Regiment
• The Royal Irish Rangers
• The Ulster Defence Regiment

• The Household Cavalry Regiment
• The Life Guards
• The Blues and Royals
• The King's Royal Hussars
• The Royal Hussars
• 14th/20th King's Hussars
• The Light Dragoons
• 13th/18th Royal Hussars
• 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars
• The Queen's Royal Hussars
• The Queen's Own Hussars
• The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
• The Queen's Royal Lancers
• 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers
• 17th/21st Lancers
• The Royal Dragoon Guards
• 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
• 5th Royal Iniskilling Dragoon Guards

• Royal Logistic Corps
• Royal Corps of Transport
• Royal Army Ordnance Corps
• Royal Pioneer Corps
• Army Catering Corps
• Postal and Courier Service, Royal Engineers
• Adjutant General's Corps
• Royal Army Educational Corps
• Royal Army Pay Corps
• Women's Royal Army Corps
• Army Legal Corps
• Corps of Royal Military Police
• Military Provost Staff Corps

Royal Air Force

• Halving the number of RAF bases in Germany to two
• Withdrawing the F-4 Phantom II squadrons from service
• Cancellation of the Brimstone missile, although it was later reinstated.

Royal Navy

• Cutting the number of frigates and destroyers from around 50 to 40.

See also

• Strategic Defence Review (1998)
• Delivering Security in a Changing World:Future Capabilites (2004)

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