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US general warns British Army no longer top-level fighting force, defence sources reveal
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3:41Now PlayingA senior US general has privately told Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and other officials the British Army is no longer regarded as a top-level fighting force, military sources have revealed.
They said this decline in war-fighting capability - following decades of cuts to save money - needed to be reversed faster than planned in the wake of Russia's war in Ukraine.
"Bottom line... it's an entire service unable to protect the UK and our allies for a decade," one of the defence sources said.
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