According to the British Army’s website, “The Army is to be reduced by 23 Regular units since the Strategic Defence and Security Review as part of Army 2020. The changes are due to be implemented by 2015, with the overall mandate to reach the capacity of 82,000 for the Regular Army and 30,000 for the Reserves by 2018.”
Read all of the bad news here, www.army.mod.uk and here www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Army2020_brochure.pdf