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The British Army's Specialised Infantry Group is billed by the Ministry of Defence as a ‘game-changing new capability for the Army’. While some cynics see the Specialised Infantry Battalions (SIBs) as a ploy to maintain the numbers of battalions in an understaffed army, in fact the SIBs, and the model of Regionally Aligned Brigades that are being implemented as part of Army 2020, are a major effort by the UK to upgrade its ability to deliver defence engagement—specifically, to work with partner nation forces. The increased investment in military capabilities to work ‘by, with, and through’ partner forces was an attempt in the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) to address the risk of instability and conflict, while recognizing that neither the British public nor the military had the appetite for large-scale, enduring stabilization operations along the lines of those in Iraq or Afghanistan. The UK recognizes the truism that conflict prevention is better than large-scale military intervention and is seeking to improve its regional understanding and relationships while bolstering local security forces in areas of UK interest. However, as it builds and deploys the required military capabilities, policy-makers cannot escape the knotty dilemmas that inevitably arise when trying to make good on these ambitions

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