An exercise to enlist more women into front-line fighting units has seemingly backfired after the drive led to only 10 female recruits starting infantry or Royal Armoured Corps basic training last year. A freedom of information request has revealed just 15 female soldiers completed basic training for either infantry or tank units between January and September 2023. The request also found almost half of those who began the training since 2019 failed to complete the course. Now, a former defence chief has slammed the diversity drive as being “very costly, damaging and futile exercise in politica…
