{"id":371067,"date":"2026-01-15T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371067\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:30:07","slug":"new-rules-make-it-easier-to-call-up-reservists-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371067\/","title":{"rendered":"New rules make it easier to call up reservists for war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The measures affect the segments of the armed forces reserve who are former service personnel rather than volunteers &#8211; known as the strategic reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Currently, the age limit for the strategic reserve is 55. This will change to 65.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The threshold for members of the strategic reserve to be mobilised will change too. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under existing rules they are called upon in the scenario of &#8220;national danger, great emergency or attack in the UK&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That threshold will be lowered to &#8220;warlike preparations&#8221;, which is already the threshold for reservists who have left active service in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The changes will come into force next year, if passed by parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government estimates that there are around 95,000 members of the strategic reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year the Strategic Defence Review called on the government to &#8220;reinvigorate the relationship with the strategic reserves&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The measures affect the segments of the armed forces reserve who are former service personnel rather than volunteers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}