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The Royal Regiment of Scotland - 3 + 2 battalions [13] [14]; The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - 1 + 2 battalions [14]; The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions [14]
Non-combat military operations involving the United Kingdom (1 C, 38 P) Military operations in Northern Ireland involving the United Kingdom (1969–2007) (6 P) O
British battle stubs (61 P) Pages in category "Battles involving the United Kingdom" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 203 total.
The exercise took place on Vieques and the purpose of the mock invasion was to overthrow a fictitious leader called "Ortsac", whose name was, in fact, Castro spelled backwards. It occurred in August, shortly before the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is also known by the names Operation Ortsac, Operation Swift Strike II and Exercise Phibriglex-62.
It is intended as a central point of access information about British formations of that size. It does not cover formations of the British Indian Army . In 1905, the army established a series of geographical military districts , known as "commands", to replace six army corps that had existed for a short period.
Operation CABRIT is the name of the British Army's operational deployment to Estonia as part of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP). [ 325 ] It is a brigade-sized deployment involving more than 1,500 British troops, with a large majority being armoured tank, cavalry, artillery and infantry personnel.
An outline of British military history, 1660–1936 (1936). online; Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present (1993). Fortescue, John William. History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes.
Contingency: The codename for all British combat operations in Afghanistan from the start of the war in 2001 until 2002 Operation Vigilance: 15 April 2005: April 2005: Wardak Province: Counterinsurgency and Humanitarian: Targeted three individuals that coalition forces were trying to kill or capture, and included humanitarian aid drops in ...