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Urgently review and reverse, proposed DEFENCE CUTS/ ‘ONE ARMY’ CONCEPT

Rejected 19 signatures

What the petition asks

Immediately and Urgently:

1. Reverse dangerously ( ill considered) Planned Defence Cuts

2. Recognise the significant inadequacies of the ‘One Army’ concept.

3: Increase Military Forces Levels (Strengths and Equipment), to reflect all realistic current threats
Regular Forces have been depleted over many Governments, in part due to the supposed !Peace Dividend’ of the late 20th Century.

The Ukraine conflict, and Russia, et al’s resurgent aggression, military ambition, and asymmetric attack policy/ strategy, require UK to ensure that OUR ‘military response capability’ is adequate to ANY (reasonably) predictable events including Armed Hostility, and Natural Disasters.

The world is now more dangerous, than it has been for many decades!

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. We're not sure if you'd like the defence cuts to be reviewed, or if you'd like them to be reversed - in which case it's not clear what the review would entail.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

Timeline

13 Jun 2022 Petition opened for signatures
20 Jun 2022 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 19
Status Rejected
Rejected 20 Jun 2022

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.