www.thetimes.co.uk By Larisa Brown
Three new bases will open but troop numbers cut from 82,000 to 73,000
Hundreds of vehicles including tanks and drones will be deployed back to Germany in a government U-turn as the army builds one of its three big overseas hubs in the country.
As part of the biggest transformation of the service in two decades, the army wants a brigade-sized force of some 250 positioned closer to eastern Europe in the event of war with Russia.
