Issues in Integrating Territorial Army Soldiers into Regular British Units for Operations: A Regular View

摘要

operational good sense. Furthermore, he believed that TA soldiers were not being looked after properly: they received inadequate training before deployment and were not cared for by the MoD after their return to the UK. The issues that Colonel Stewart raised are all reflected in the interview material to some extent. However, he appeared to be unable to visit the growing set of measures (such as "twinning"), which are being developed within the Army to offset these considerable disadvantages. It is to be hoped that studies such as this one and its anticipated successors, aimed at a better understanding of what has happened and informing policy for the future, can take the British Army into a set of policies and processes that provide operationally effective battlegroups in the FAS era with combined TA and regular membership.