The generation of young men and women who joined the British Army
during the mid to late 1980s would serve their country during an
unprecedented period of history. Unlike the two world war
generations, they would never face total war – there was never
any declaration of war and there was no one single country to
defeat. In fact, it was supposed to have been the end of a war, a
time of peace and stability. Politicians started to use the term,
Peace Dividend, with government officials even planning on how and
where it should be spent. But for those in the military, the two
decades following the end of the Cold War would not be a time of
peace. Government spending and the size of the military was reduced
but the Army's commitments increased exponentially. Those serving
not only faced continuous deployment in overseas operations, they
would also be involved in immense upheavals that took place within
the army. When the Berlin Wall came down, the British Army had not
changed for decades. The ending of the Cold War, combined with a
technological revolution, a changing society at home, and new
global threats mean that the Army of the second decade of the
twentieth-first century – the army this generation of soldiers is
now retiring from – is unrecognizable from the one they joined in
the late 1980s. This is the story of the soldiers who served in the
British Army in those tumultuous decades.
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