Mission Improbable

The Transformation of the British Army Reserve

By: Patrick Dr. Bury

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Paperback | 31 January 2019

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Extensive research, including interviews with ministers and generals, fieldwork with army reserve units, and surveys underpins this definitive account of Future Reserves 2020 (FR20).

A central tenet of recent British defence policy, FR20 sought to radically transform the role and function of the British Army Reserve by making it more capable and more deployable, whilst simultaneously cutting costs by outsourcing logistics capability to reserve forces.

In this book, Bury examines the origins, evolution and impact of the policy. He controversially shows how its intensely intra-party and intra-service political origins, the Army's resistance to them, and the Army Reserves' organisational nature, have undermined the policy's ability to deliver the key military capabilities it envisaged. In doing so, he provides evidence of incoherent defence policy making in the Cameron era.

Nevertheless, there have been successes. By examining the impact of FR20 at the unit level, the book illustrates that whilst some units will struggle to deliver the required capability, in other areas such as integration with the regulars, professionalism, and opportunities, FR20 is delivering.

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This thorough analysis of the British Army reserve highlights the political nature of the decision in 2010 to expand the reserve rather too rapidly to compensate for the significant reduction in the capability of the Regular Army. Several years later, and after much hard work, it is clear that an expansion will be achieved, while the evolution of modern confrontation provides new avenues for reservists to ply their specialist skills, so they should be in demand. Future attempts to transform the reserve have plenty to take from Bury's study.

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