The British government gave an indication of its proposals for the future structure of the Army in early 2008, in a press report stating that it was considering restructuring the Army into a force of three deployable divisional headquarters and eight "homogenous or identical" brigades, each with a spread of heavy, medium and light capabilities.
This report indicated that the existing 16 Air Assault Brigade would be retained as a high-readiness rapid reaction force.
The originally envisaged future structure was announced on 19 July 2011 in a briefing paper entitled Defence Basing Review: Headline Decisions.
[6] The divisional headquarters of 2nd, 4th, and 5th Divisions were disbanded in 2012 and replaced by a single formation known as Support Command, based at Aldershot.
The term "Regional Point of Command," encompassing organisations such as Headquarters North East, also appears to have been introduced under the reorganisations.
However, through the 2020 reforms, 3 new battalions of infantry (1 regular, 2 reserve) were created including:[20][21] The Joint Helicopter Command remained an integral part of the land force.
[22] One Regiment would remain at high readiness annually, with one Apache Squadron committed towards the Lead Armoured Battlegroup.
[22] British Forces Royal Logistic Corps in Germany were announced to be withdrawn back to the UK by 2015: An initial basing plan located infantry brigades throughout the United Kingdom, with the three reaction force brigades situated in the Salisbury Plain Training Area.
[10] All Germany-based units were relocated to the UK, with the Salisbury Plain area holding the largest concentration of troops.