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How did Britain let 250,000 underage soldiers fight in WW1?
28/05/2014
A BBC resource. Includes a final section on ‘could this happen today’?
At the outbreak of war in 1914, the British Army had 700,000 available men. Germany’s wartime army was over 3.7 million. When a campaign for volunteers was launched, thousands answered the call to fight. Among them were 250,000 boys and young men under the age of 19, the legal limit for armed service overseas.
Peace Education Network
27/05/2014
The Peace Education Network is a national UK network that brings together people and organisations committed to education for peace.
Teach Peace pack
Teach Peace, a new resource from the Peace Education Network, is a set of eight assemblies, follow-up activities, resources, prayers and reflections on peace for primary schools.
From the UN peace day, 21 September, to the International Day for Children as Victims of War, 4 June, the school year is ?lled with opportunities to use the assemblies and activities in Teach Peace. This resource will help to ensure peace is a key theme in our children’s education and help you to celebrate peace and the peacemakers in your school.
The entire resource is free to download below. Hard copies of Teach Peace are available from the Peace Education Network for £5. Also available in Welsh.
Your country needs your children – MoD targets teens to fix recruitment crisis
Amid ongoing controversy around the MoD’s struggling recruitment campaigns for the armed forces, figures published this week reveal that the Army has resorted to increasing numbers of 16-year-olds in an attempt to fix the recruitment shortfall.
UK under fire for recruiting an ‘army of children’
MoD finds itself in the company of countries such as North Korea over use of teenage soldiers
Questioning military academies and free schools
20/05/2014
This article explains what we mean by ‘military academies’ and ‘military free schools’, and explores the concerns that they raise: the lack of evidence that they will raise attainment; that they can employ unqualified teachers; their limited accountability to the local community; the fact that they can set their own curriculum. Crucially, there are various agendas behind military academies and free schools, including providing employment for the growing number of veterans, and encouraging pupils to join the armed forces after they leave school. There is also unease about what military-style discipline would look like in a school environment.
Drone Wars: Pilots reveal debilitating stress beyond virtual battlefield
13/05/2014
“To extinguish a person’s life is a very personal thing. While physically we don’t experience the five senses when we engage a target — unlike [how] an infantryman might — in my experience, the emotional impact on the operator is equal.”
Arms and the Woman: Militarizing Gender Wars
09/05/2014
You know the British Army is experiencing a crisis in recruitment when they start to make noises about ending the ban on women in combat roles.
Take arms firms out of the Big Bang Fair
28/03/2014
Letter signed by over 100, including ForcesWatch
Defence Committee report challenges the MoD (again) to produce a ‘robust and thorough’ review of under 18 recruitment
06/03/2014
The Defence Select Committee have today released their report of inquiry into the MoD’s Future Army 2020 plan. Amid the concerns about the strategy of increasing the proportion of reservists in relation to regular forces, the report calls on the MoD “to respond in detail to the argument that the Army could phase out the recruitment of minors without detriment to the Army 2020 plans”. Read our submission to the inquiry here.
FUTURE ARMY 2020: Defence Committee increases pressure to MoD to raise enlistment age to 18
05/03/2014
The Defence Select Committee has increased the pressure on the MoD to stop enlisting minors, in a report published today.
Disaster militarism
The country’s military institutions must not be seen as deserving of special consideration. Once the ethos of public service has been smashed and discredited by neoliberal restructuring, the danger is that it will take more than an army to bring it back. By Vron Ware.
Gove’s Troops To Teachers ‘A Costly Flop’
04/03/2014
Michael Gove’s scheme to train ex-squaddies as teachers was labelled an “expensive flop” yesterday after it was revealed the Tory Education Secretary mustered just 132 recruits.
ForcesWatch submission to Defence Select Committee inquiry on Military Casualties
01/03/2014
ForcesWatch’s submission to the Defence Select Committee inquiry on Military Casualties draws on our research published in The Last Ambush.
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