US general warns British Army no longer among world's top tier fighting forces: report - Fox News

A elder U.S. wide has precocious warned U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace that the British Army is nary longer considered to beryllium among the world’s top-tier warring forces, according to a Sunday report. 

The root told Wallace that decades of cuts to Britain’s subject defence has eroded the country’s warring capabilities, Sky News reports. 

FILE: Soldiers successful enactment arsenic the British Army show the latest and aboriginal exertion utilized connected operations crossed the globe connected Salisbury plain grooming country connected October 29, 2019, successful Salisbury, England.  (Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

The root is quoted arsenic saying: "Bottom line… it’s an full work incapable to support the U.K. and our allies for a decade." 

Another reportedly said determination was a greater consciousness of urgency for the U.K. to revive its subject successful the aftermath of Russia’s ongoing subject aggression against Ukraine. 

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The Sky News report offers details of the U.K.’s subject to overgarment of representation of what the state is up against. For example, the bulk of its armored vehicles were built betwixt 30 to 60 years agone and "full replacements are not owed for years." 

The U.S. wide is said to person told Wallace that the U.K. subject is not a "tier one" warring unit similar the United States, Russia, China, oregon France and is "barely" successful tier two.

FILE: British Army soldiers, from the Royal Welch Fusiliers Regiment and Iraqi National Guards, reboard a Chinook Helicopter successful confederate Iraq, during their archetypal associated Eagle Airborne Vehicle Check Point Patrol.  (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

The request for the U.K. to modernize its subject comes adjacent arsenic the state has pledged to proceed supporting Ukraine successful its combat against Russia.

Earlier this month, the U.K. pledged to nonstop Ukraine tanks aft Kyiv again fell unfortunate to rocket strikes and arsenic dense crushed warfare continued successful Ukraine’s Donbas region. 

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said helium would nonstop Ukraine Challenger 2 tanks on with further artillery systems pursuing a Saturday telephone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 

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A U.S. defence root is quoted arsenic saying Sunak’s "wartime attack is presently to chopped the army, hollow it retired further by gifting [equipment to Ukraine] and with nary plans to regenerate [the weapons] for 5 to 7 years." 

Fox News’ Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.