Issues in integrating territorial army soldiers into regular british units for operations: A regular view

Defense and Security Analysis

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 181-195

  Kirke, Charles ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED APPROACH; MILITARY APPLICATION; NATIONAL SECURITY; TERRITORIAL PLANNING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 46449128427     PISSN: 14751798     EISSN: 14751801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14751790802124980     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Disclaimer. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and should not be attributed to the British Army or the UKMinistry of Defence.
2. MoD, "Delivering Security in a Changing World: Defence White Paper", The Stationery Office: London,December 2003.
3. MoD, "Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future Capabilities", The Stationery Office: London, July 2004.
4. Geoff Hoon, Future Structure of the Army, 16 December 2004, House of Commons Hansard Debates, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ cm200405/cmhansrd/vo041216/debtext/41216-06.htm#41216-06_spmin2, accessed 7 February 2008.
5. The term "soldier" here means any member of the British Army (TA or regular) regardless of rank. It is qualified for particular contexts with an adjective - for example "regular soldier", "TA soldierA".
6. In this sense, "regiment or battalion" means a unit commanded at lieutenant colonel level and consisting of a number of sub-units. The infantry and the Royal Electrical andMechanical Engineers call their units "battalions", whilst the rest of the Army call their units "regiments".
7. B.A. Northover, "Does a Culture of Mobilisation Exist in the PostOp TELIC Era?", unpublished MDA thesis, Shrivenham, Cranfield University, 2004.
8. N. Greenberg et al., "The Changing Influences on UK Volunteer Reservists Serving on Op TELIC 2006-2006", Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, Chicago, Illinois, October 2007. A revised version of this paper has been accepted for publication in Work, Employment & Society.
9. See QSR, N6 Reference Guide, Doncaster, Victoria, Australia: QSR International Pty Ltd, 2002.
10. "Infantry" is used here in the widest sense, to include members of the Royal Marines or the Guards as and if they contributed to the study.
11. Martin Hill, "Blog, Op Telic (Iraq), Jan-May 2003", http://www.martinhill.me.uk/articles/OpTelic/index.shtml, accessed 8 February 2008. This document contains a diary with photographs, copies of emails and transcriptions of letters.
12. HM Government, "Reserve Forces Act 1996", Office of Public Sector Information, http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1996/1996014.htm, accessed 8 February 2008.
13. Only the infantry, Royal Armoured Corps, Household Cavalry and Royal Artillery do not use a trickle posting system. The Royal Artillery, uniquely, trickle posts it officers but not its warrant officers, senior NCOs or other ranks.
14. The British Army is confusing in the use of the term "Regiment", which can mean two distinct things. In the first place, it means the overarching organisational level to which a soldier belongs, represented by his or her cap badge, and equivalent to the "Corps" organisational level.On the other hand, it can also mean unit level in certain Regiments and Corps (equivalent to a battalion in the Infantry or the Royal and Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, for example). In this paper, the larger organisational level is spelled with an initial capital and the smaller one entirely in lower case. Thus the Corps of Royal Engineers is organised into a number of regiments, the Royal Anglian Regiment is organised into a number of battalions, and the Royal Regiment of Artillery is organised into a number of regiments).
15. A "rear party" is composed of soldiers appointed to remain behind in the home barracks during the deployment of a unit. Rear parties are also formed during periods of block leave or large-scale exercises.
16. There are some notable exceptions to this pattern. For example, 52 Royal Artillery TA personnel called up to support a regular regiment in August 2006 spent six weeks with their new unit before deploying. See Esther Lewis, "The TA Take on Telic", Gunner Magazine, March 2007, p. 6.
17. See Andrew Alderson, Bankrolling Basra, London: Robinson, 2007.
18. The UK Government has recently announced that specialist medical care (as for regulars) will be available to wounded TA soldiers.We have yet to see how this will be played out in practice, particularly in the case of physical rehabilitation and psychiatric care.
19. Northover, "Does a Culture of Mobilisation Exist in the Post Op TELIC Era", op. cit., Section 4, pp. 10, 11.
20. Ibid., Section 4, p. 8.
21. Ibid., Section 4, p. 11.
22. Eversden-French et al., "Changing Influences", op. cit., p. 10.
23. Ibid., pp. 13, 15.
24. Ibid., p. 12.
25. See, for example, Robert J.MacCoun et al., "Does Social Cohesion Determine Motivation in Combat", Armed Forces and Society, Vol. 32,No. 4, 2006, pp. 646-654.
26. See for example, Guy L. Siebold, "The Essence of Military Group Cohesion", Armed Forces and Society, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2007, pp. 286-295.
27. Charles Horton Cooley, Social Organization: A Study of the Larger Mind, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909.
28. Edward A. Shils and Morris Janowitz, "Cohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmacht in WorldWar II", Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 12, Summer 1948, pp. 280-315.
29. Guy L. Siebold, "The Essence of Military Group Cohesion", Armed Forces and Society, Vol. 33,No. 2, 2007, pp. 286-295, p. 287.
30. Charles Kirke, "A Model for the Analysis of Fighting Spirit in the British Army", in Hew Strachan (ed.), The British Army, Manpower and Society into the Twenty-First Century, London: Frank Cass, 2000, pp. 227-241.
31. Jonathan Elliott, "Army on the Cheap", The Insider, United Kingdom: Channel 4, 24 August 2007.
32. See also Stewart's supporting article, Bob Stewart, "We Ask Too Much from our TA Soldiers", The Daily Telegraph, 23 August 2007.