A Warwickshire military charity that opened its doors over 15 years ago to former British Armed Forces personnel, is ...

“When I joined my regiment in 1980, the British Army of the Rhine alone had 900 tanks,” Crawford wrote in U.K. Defense Journal. “Now we will have roughly one-sixth of that number.

“We will have a persistent presence in those countries.” Set up as an occupation force after World War II, the British Army of the Rhine numbered more than 50,000 troops in the 1970s and 1980s.

The British Army hasn’t bought significant numbers of armored vehicles in a generation. Financial problems, neglect at the political level and the exigencies of low-intensity foreign wars are to ...