Editing British Army (section)

== Current deployments ==

=== {{anchor|Low intensity operations}}Low-intensity operations ===
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! [[Iraq]]
| Since 2014
| [[Operation Shader]]: The UK has a leading role in the 67-member Global Coalition committed to defeating ISIL. The coalition includes Iraq, European nations and the US. British soldiers are not in a combat role in Iraq but are on the ground with coalition partners providing training and equipment to Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Kurdish Security Forces (KSF). There were approximately 400 military personnel in Iraq in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/03/12/key-questions-over-britains-military-presence-in-iraq/|title=Key questions over Britain's military presence in Iraq|date=12 March 2020|publisher=Express and Star|access-date=21 November 2020|archive-date=25 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625025751/https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/03/12/key-questions-over-britains-military-presence-in-iraq/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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! [[Cyprus]]
| Since 1964
| [[United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus|Operation Tosca]]: There were 275 troops deployed as part of the UNFICYP in 2016.<ref name="org">{{cite web|title=The UK and UN Peace Operations: A Case for Greater Engagement: Table 1|date=26 May 2016 |url=http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers_and_reports/uk_and_un_peace_operations_case_greater_engagement|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308142500/http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers_and_reports/uk_and_un_peace_operations_case_greater_engagement|archive-date=8 March 2017|access-date=7 March 2017|publisher=Oxford Research Group}}</ref>
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! [[Estonia]]
| Since 2017
|[[NATO Enhanced Forward Presence]]: The British Army deploys approximately 900 troops to Estonia and 150 to Poland as part of its commitment to NATO.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Baltics|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/deployments/baltics/|access-date=21 November 2020|website=www.army.mod.uk}}</ref>
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![[Africa]]
|Since 2019
|The British Army maintains several short-term military training teams to help build the capacity of national military forces, ensuring a number of states across Africa can respond appropriately and proportionally to the security threats they face, including terrorism, the illegal wildlife trade, violations of human rights and emerging humanitarian crises.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Africa|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/deployments/africa/|access-date=21 November 2020|website=www.army.mod.uk}}</ref>
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=== Permanent overseas postings ===
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! [[Belize]]
| 1949
| [[British Army Training and Support Unit Belize]]: The British Army has maintained a presence in Belize since its independence. Currently the British Army Training Support Unit in Belize enables close country and tropical environment training to troops from the UK and international partners.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Belize|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/deployments/belize/|access-date=21 November 2020|website=www.army.mod.uk}}</ref>
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! [[Bermuda]]
| 1701
| [[Royal Bermuda Regiment]]: Colonial Militia and volunteers existed from 1612 to 1816. The regular English Army, then British Army, [[Bermuda Garrison]] was first established by an [[Independent Company]] in 1701.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bermuda-online.org/britarmy.htm|title=British Army in Bermuda from 1701 to 1977|publisher=Bermuda On Line|access-date=22 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723035420/http://www.bermuda-online.org/britarmy.htm|archive-date=23 July 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Volunteers were recruited into the regular army and the [[Board of Ordnance]] Military Corps for part-time, local-service from the 1830s to the 1850s due to the lack of a Militia. The British Government considered Bermuda as an [[Imperial fortress]], rather than a colony. After the French Revolution, the [[Governor of Bermuda]] was normally a military officer (usually a Lieutenant-General or Major-General of the Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers) in charge of all military forces in Bermuda, with the Bermuda Garrison falling under the Nova Scotia Command. From 1868, the Bermuda Garrison became the independent Bermuda Command, with Governors being Generals, Lieutenant-Generals or Major Generals occupying the role of Commander-in-Chief or [[General officer commanding#GOC-in-C|General Officer Commanding-in-Chief]] (GOC-in-C). Locally recruited reserve units, the Royal Artillery-badged [[Bermuda Militia Artillery]] (BMA) and [[Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps]] (BVRC) were raised again from 1894, later joined by the Royal Engineers-badged [[Bermuda Volunteer Engineers]] (1931–1946), [[General Service Corps]]-badged [[Bermuda Militia Infantry]] (1939–1946), and a Home Guard (1942–1946). After the [[Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda|Royal Naval Dockyard]] was redesignated a naval base in 1951, the army garrison was closed in 1957, leaving only the part-time BMA (re-tasked as infantry in 1953, though still badged and uniformed as Royal Artillery) and BVRC (renamed Bermuda Rifles in 1949). The Bermuda Command Headquarters and all regular army personnel other than members of the Permanent Staff of the local Territorials and the [[Aide-de-Camp]] to the Governor of Bermuda (today normally a Captain from the [[Royal Bermuda Regiment]] employed full-time for the duration of the appointment) were withdrawn. Home defence has been provided by the [[Royal Bermuda Regiment]] since formed by the 1965 amalgamation of the BMA and Bermuda Rifles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/royal-anglian-soldiers-boost-bermuda-regiment|title=Royal Anglian soldiers boost Bermuda Regiment|publisher=Ministry of Defence|access-date=22 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723035810/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/royal-anglian-soldiers-boost-bermuda-regiment|archive-date=23 July 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
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! [[Brunei]]
| 1962
| [[British Forces Brunei]]: One battalion of the [[Royal Gurkha Rifles]], [[British Military Garrison Brunei|British Garrison]], [[British Army Jungle Warfare Training School|Training Team Brunei (TTB)]]. A Gurkha battalion has been maintained in Brunei since the [[Brunei Revolt]] in 1962 at the request of [[List of Sultans of Brunei|Sultan]] [[Omar Ali Saifuddin III]]. Training Team Brunei (TTB) is the Army's jungle-warfare school, and a small number of garrison troops support the battalion. 7 Flight AAC formerly provided helicopter support to the Gurkha battalion and TTB<ref name="Brunei">{{cite web | url=http://www.army.mod.uk/operations-deployments/22792.aspx | title=The British Army in Brunei | access-date=2 March 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609090139/http://www.army.mod.uk/operations-deployments/22792.aspx | archive-date=9 June 2016 | url-status=live}}</ref> but its role has since been assumed by [[No. 230 Squadron RAF]].
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! [[Canada]]
| 1972
| [[British Army Training Unit Suffield]]: A training centre in [[Alberta]] prairie for the use of British Army and [[Canadian Forces]] under agreement with the [[government of Canada]]. British forces conduct regular, major armoured training exercises every year, with helicopter support provided by 29 (BATUS) Flight [[Army Air Corps (United Kingdom)|AAC]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.army.mod.uk/operations-deployments/22727.aspx | title=The British Army in Canada | access-date=2 March 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605063606/http://www.army.mod.uk/operations-deployments/22727.aspx | archive-date=5 June 2016 | url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="29 BATUS AAC">{{cite web | url=https://www.army.mod.uk/aviation/30332.aspx | title=29 (BATUS) Flight Army Air Corps | access-date=2 March 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228181227/http://army.mod.uk/aviation/30332.aspx | archive-date=28 February 2013 | url-status=live}}</ref>
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! [[Cyprus]]
| 1960
| 2 resident infantry battalions, [[Royal Engineers]] and Joint Service Signals Unit at [[Ayios Nikolaos Station|Ayios Nikolaos]] as part of [[British Forces Cyprus]]. The UK retains two [[Sovereign Base Areas]] on Cyprus after the rest of the island's independence, which are forward bases for deployments to the Middle East. Principal facilities are Alexander Barracks at Dhekelia and Salamanca Barracks at [[Episkopi, Limassol|Episkopi]].<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/2001/mar/26/somme-barracks-cyprus Somme Barracks (Cyprus)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429191531/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/2001/mar/26/somme-barracks-cyprus |date=29 April 2011 }} Hansard, 26 March 2001</ref>
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! [[Falkland Islands]]
| 1982
| Part of [[British Forces South Atlantic Islands]]: After the 1982 conflict, the UK established a garrison on the Falkland Islands, consisting of naval, land and air elements. The British Army contribution consists of an infantry company group, a Royal Artillery Battery and an Engineer Squadron.<ref>{{Cite web|title=South Atlantic Islands|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/deployments/south-atlantic-islands/|access-date=21 November 2020|website=www.army.mod.uk}}</ref>
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! [[Gibraltar]]
| 1704
| Part of [[British Forces Gibraltar]]: The Army has had a presence in Gibraltar for more than 300 years. The people of Gibraltar took up arms as the Gibraltar Volunteer Corps from 1915 to 1920 and again as the Gibraltar Defence Force shortly before the outbreak of WW2. This force later became the [[Royal Gibraltar Regiment]], which remains as the only formed Army unit in Gibraltar.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gibraltar|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/deployments/gibraltar/|access-date=21 November 2020|website=www.army.mod.uk}}</ref>
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! [[Kenya]]
| 2010
| [[British Army Training Unit Kenya]]: The army has a training centre in Kenya. BATUK is a permanent training support unit based mainly in Nanyuki, 200&nbsp;km north of Nairobi. BATUK provides demanding training to exercising units preparing to deploy on operations or assume high-readiness tasks. BATUK consists of around 100 permanent staff and reinforcing short tour cohort of another 280 personnel. Under an agreement with the Kenyan Government, up to six infantry battalions per year carry out eight-week exercises in Kenya.<ref name=":1" /> There are also Royal Engineer exercises, which carry out civil engineering projects, and medical deployments, which provide primary health care assistance to the civilian community., under an agreement with the Kenyan government, which provides training facilities for 3 infantry battalions per year.<ref name="Africa">{{cite web | url=http://www.army.mod.uk/operations-deployments/22724.aspx | title=The British Army in Africa | access-date=2 March 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630055845/http://www.army.mod.uk/operations-deployments/22724.aspx | archive-date=30 June 2016 | url-status=live}}</ref>
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! [[Oman]]
| 2019
| [[Omani-British Joint Training Area]]: A training area for combined arms battlegroup training, jointly maintained with the [[Royal Army of Oman]].<ref name="Oman">{{cite news |title=UK and Oman sign historic Joint Defence Agreement |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-oman-sign-historic-joint-defence-agreement |access-date=18 September 2020 |agency=GOV.UK |date=21 February 2019}}</ref>
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