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Britain said on Thursday it would strengthen its military reserve forces by raising the maximum age at which former personnel could be called up by \u200ca
decade to \u206065.
European countries, including France and Germany, have taken steps to boost their reserves in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the United States’ insistence that Europe take more responsibility for its own security.
Britain also said it would lower the threshold for which former personnel could be called upon to include “warlike preparations”. Currently they can only be called upon for “national danger, great emergency or attack \u2060on the UK”.
“These reforms will allow us to mobilise that talent rapidly when it matters most, strengthening our readiness and aligning with a similar approach many NATO forces are taking,” said Paul Griffiths, the general leading the British effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britain said on Thursday it would strengthen its military reserve forces by raising the maximum age at which former personnel could be called up by \u200cadecade to \u206065.European countries, including France and Germany, have taken steps to boost their reserves in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the United States’ insistence that Europe take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nBritain to boost military reserves by raising maximum call-up age to 65 - Metro Plus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/01\/16\/britain-to-boost-military-reserves-by-raising-maximum-call-up-age-to-65\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Britain to boost military reserves by raising maximum call-up age to 65 - 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