About UKNDA
The UKNDA has been formed to support our Armed Forces and to campaign for “sufficient, appropriate and fully funded Armed Forces to provide an effective defence of our country, its people, their security and vital interests wherever they may be.”
We champion the cause of our nation’s brave servicemen and servicemen – of all ranks and across all three Services. We work to ensure that they have the right weapons and equipment, that they are properly paid, and that they and their families receive the care and respect they deserve.
We work to bring pressure to bear on the politicians to put defence back at the top of the nation’s list of priorities. Our message to MPs – on both sides of the House of Commons – is that we need (in the words of the man who led Britain from 1940 to 1945): “ACTION THIS DAY!”
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Welcome to the website of the United Kingdom National Defence Association (UKNDA). The UKNDA has been formed to support our Armed Forces and to campaign for “sufficient, appropriate and fully funded Armed Forces to provide an effective defence of our country, its people, their security and vital interests wherever they may be.”
Britain's Armed Forces: Under-funded and overstretched
Britain’s Armed Forces are chronically under-funded and over-stretched. Not since the 1930s have our Navy, Army and Air Force been so starved of the resources they need. Our Forces have been slashed in half over the past two decades alone – yet in the same period our military commitments have vastly increased. This is a disaster for the men and women of our Armed Forces – and a catastrophe for our nation.
Inadequate equipment means that lives have been lost unnecessarily. Pay and conditions for our servicemen and women have fallen well below those of their civilian equivalents – to the point where a traffic warden or cleaner can earn more than a soldier. And due to funding cuts, long-overdue improvements to housing for service families have been delayed or cancelled. The nation’s Covenant with the Armed Forces has been broken....