Defence minister Luke Pollard warned that the danger of an attack on the UK extends far beyond dry land, as adversaries could ...

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “smoke and mirrors” over a new £40 billion defence pledge. The Prime Minister will on ...

"Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated," Trump said in a televised Oval ...

The article continues: "On the day Britain declared war on Germany, September 3, 1939, Parliament immediately passed a more ...

Nothing has shown up the UK as a second-tier power quite as much as the last few days. Last week, after a G7 summit dinner in ...

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps© PA Wire Rishi Sunak said 30,000 18-year-olds would get a year of full-time experience in the armed forces (James Manning/PA Wire)© Provided by The Independent ...

However, after war officially broke out, the age range widened to men in the age range of 18 to 41. The site further ...

In WW2, conscription began for men aged between 20 to 22 in 1939, up to six months before the war actually broke out. The UK ...

If war was ever to erupt, men of a certain age could be conscripted to fight for the country, with information from WW2 ...

Defence Secretary John Healey speaks to the media ahead of the Nato Summit for defence ministers, where he said the UK plans 'to step up' on European Security.