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Options for Change was a restructuring of the British Armed Forces in 1990, aimed at cutting defence spending following the end of the Cold War. Note. (There was a previous Options for Change Exercise in the late 70's when service personal if they had not reached a certain rank were made redundant)

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  • Options for Change was a restructuring of the British Armed Forces in 1990, aimed at cutting defence spending following the end of the Cold War. Note. (There was a previous Options for Change Exercise in the late 70's when service personal if they had not reached a certain rank were made redundant)
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  • Options for Change was a restructuring of the British Armed Forces in 1990, aimed at cutting defence spending following the end of the Cold War. Note. (There was a previous Options for Change Exercise in the late 70's when service personal if they had not reached a certain rank were made redundant) UK military strategy had until this point been almost entirely focused on defending the UK against the Soviet military; whether the Royal Marines in Scandinavia, the Royal Air Force in West Germany or over the North Sea, the Royal Navy in the Norwegian Sea and North Atlantic, or the British Army in Germany. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact these scenarios were no longer relevant. While criticised both before and after, it was an exercise mirrored by governments of almost every major western military power, the so-called "peace dividend". Among the changes implemented was the cutting total manpower by approximately 18% to around 255,000 (120,000 British Army; 60,000 Royal Navy; 75,000 Royal Air Force). Another major casualty of options for change was the UK's combined nuclear civil defence organisations comprising of the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation and its fieldforce the Royal Observer Corps (a spare time volunteer branch of the RAF), both of which were wound down and disbanded between September 1991 and December 1995.
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