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The UK's Defence Secretary has confirmed the British Army is in decline and is no longer regarded as a top-level fighting force.
This has come off the back of a US general warning that the British Army's decline needs to be reversed faster in wake of the Russia-Ukraine war.
UK correspondent Enda Brady says this decline is the result of successive conservative governments slashing funding to the British army over the years.
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