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Options for Change was a restructuring of the British military in 1993, aimed at cutting defence spending following the end of the Cold War.
Among the changes implemented were:
British Army
Infantry
- The Highlanders
- The Queen's Own Highlanders
- The Gordon Highlanders
- The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
- The Queen's Regiment
- The Royal Hampshire Regiment
- The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
- The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment
- The Gloucestershire Regiment
- The Royal Gurkha Rifles
- 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles
- 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles
- 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles
- 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
- The Royal Irish Regiment
- The Royal Irish Rangers
- The Ulster Defence Regiment
Cavalry
- The Household Cavalry Regiment
- The Life Guards
- The Blues and Royals
- The King's Royal Hussars
- The Royal Hussars
- 14th/20th King's Hussars
- The Light Dragoons
- 13th/18th Royal Hussars
- 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars
- The Queen's Royal Hussars
- The Queen's Own Hussars
- The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
- The Queen's Royal Lancers
- 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers
- 17th/21st Lancers
- The Royal Dragoon Guards
- 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
- 5th Royal Iniskilling Dragoon Guards
Services
- Royal Logistic Corps
- Royal Corps of Transport
- Royal Army Ordnance Corps
- Royal Pioneer Corps
- Army Catering Corps
- Postal and Courier Service, Royal Engineers
- Adjutant General's Corps
- Royal Army Educational Corps
- Royal Army Pay Corps
- Women's Royal Army Corps
- Army Legal Corps
- Corps of Royal Military Police
- Military Provost Staff Corps
Royal Air Force
- Halving the number of RAF bases in Germany to two
- Withdrawing the F-4 Phantom II squadrons from service
- Cancellation of the Brimstone missile, although it was later reinstated.
Royal Navy
See also
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