It will just be 72,500 human soldiers by 2025

The size of the UK's Army is to be reduced to 72,500 soldiers by 2025 as part of a move towards drones and cyber warfare.

Need to reduce troop numbers

The head of the British Armed Forces had a special interview on Sky News in which he suggested that a quarter of soldiers might be robots.

But still using Windows ME

The British Army is carrying out a test of military robots and drones over the next month.

Army top brass split between tradition and high-tech

The British army’s new chief of the general staff, Gen Mark Carleton-Smith, British forces must shift their focus to include confronting adversaries in the virtual world as well as on the battlefield.