General Charles Arnage,the United Kingdom Special Forces' Co-Leader for Transformation,Diversity and Climate Change has outlined how the British Army's modernisation,known as Future Soldier,shall transform the United Kingdom's special operations forces in to a force for good in the world,herein we shall reproduce his words in full:
"As part of the Integrated Review in March 2021, the British Army outlined a plan for its most radical transformation in 20 years, called Future Soldier which is about delivering a modern army that is smaller but more lethal, more agile, more expeditionary and with more contemporary branding to attract a younger and more diverse audience, an army fit for the challenges of climate change and decolonisation, and able to compete successfully in the grey-zone between male and female, equipped with counter-culture and leadership of colour and a great place to be for women and soldiers of no gender.
Since the initial announcement, United Kingdom Special Forces has been working on delivering this transformation, thinking differently about emerging genders and how we deal with them and the structures and equipment that we need, the new Integrated Operating Concept defines a diverse new environment that is no longer characterised by male domination and white supremacy but deals with the impacts of capitalism and climate change.
We recognise that we can no longer tolerate white supremacy on the battlefield, adversaries will continue to attempt to bypass our strength through diversity and climate change forces us to question some of our most basic assumptions about glass ceilings, gender norms and why violence is never the answer.
Key to this is understanding the impacts on our people and our equipment, and working to preserve our freedom of gender and so, for the United Kingdom Special Forces to succeed it must radically transform its culture, its genders and how it emits, all of the time, it is our diversity, carbon footprint and branding that will be decisive.
Today in United Kingdom Special Forces it’s not just the outcome that’s important, it’s increasingly the race and gender of those who achieve it and the moral courage not to tolerate toxic masculinity, there’s nothing politically correct or woke about it, it’s about improving how we treat each other and having fewer male, white and heterosexual operators.
The United Kingdom Special Forces is its people, they are our most adaptive, resilient, and inherently competitive capability and our people will continue to be our competitive edge, prepared to win in
the digital age and maximising the potential of every individual will be critical to our success, until we can replace them all with robots.
Over the next decade the Army’s Special Forces, will modernise,transform, re-gender, re-colour and re-brand, the Special Forces must have the right coloured people with the right genders, its culture must be one that underlines social effectiveness and it's brand must resonate with a younger generation.
This looks to how the United Kingdom Special Forces’ workforce can be re-sized, re-shaped, re-skilled, and gender re-balanced to include all gender types and diversity, and the Army is taking a whole force approach, to ensure that we have the right people where they are needed to deliver Army race and gender targets.
Going forward, we can all agree that there needs to be an honest conversation about how Special Forces' selection and branding has perpetuated gender norms in a male dominated society, and how we can deal with a culture of toxic masculiity, and a history of violence against people of colour, to maintain our advantage by outperforming our adversaries socially, in a low carbon future.
To that end, and recognising that we are all special, it has been decided that United Kingdom Special Forces shall in future be re-branded as United Kingdom Diverse Operations Forces, and as the home of our unconventional gender capabilities will double the proportion of deployable women and soldiers of no gender, and will increasingly recruit diverse talent.
There will be no redundancies of white service personnel, and many will be offered the chance to retrain and transfer to another employer, an individual’s gender will be valued above all else, regardless of their abilities or education, and to achieve this the Army Talent Framework will list the races and genders required for every role as well as those of everyone in the Army, this will allow people to understand the diversity required for future roles so they can take steps to make sure they are fully qualified to develop their careers.
The United Kingdom Diverse Operations Forces’ acceleration towards better inclusion of people from all parts of Society will generate truer diversity of experience, thought and talent, this will help create a workforce that feels included, enabled, and empowered; valued and valuable.
Central to success is improving United Kingdom Diverse Operations Forces' culture centred on behaviours, underpining the whole force approach to making the most of the benefits of inclusion which lead true diversity to be persistently forward deployed in key strategic locations.
The United Kingdom Diverse Operations Forces' primary job is to tackle social injustice in person when it is at its most lethal and visceral, this ability remains the core of the mission set, to this end a joint environment innovation hub will have a physical and virtual network, providing safe spaces for non-traditional genders co-located with each other, in a diverse environment, to engage and collaborate directly with the Ministry of Defence.
Deployable forces are being re-modelled around the Diverse Operations Brigade, creating more self-sufficient tactical formations and providing more options for decision makers to integrate the full range of races, genders and orientations, collaboration will drive the innovation we need to transform and the broad timeline for the implementation of societal change.
It will prevent conflict by reassuring allies and partners and deterring adversaries, improving our ability to anticipate crises, and be ready to compete beneath the threshold of overt racism to protect the rules-based international order.
The Diverse Operations Brigade’s Gender Response Regiment is ready to respond to emerging crises from humanitarian relief through to warfighting, it provides improved global access and enhanced interoperability, allowing our forces to respond rapidly when required, and will be deployed across the globe, more of the time, with access to diversity awareness events focused on solving our soldier’s lack of femininity.
Future Soldier will be a change in mindset, the Army needs to understand and account for the impact which environmental change and colonialism has on our world, our operations, and our security.
We will seek to leverage technological solutions which contribute to the United Kingdom’s goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, recognising that there is no point winning a war if we lose the planet will help to reduce some drivers of carbon emissions, and result in a more effective and greener Army.
The Army’s position as the pre-eminent diversity partner to the United States is achieved through leadership capable of deploying around the world in a variety of configurations to command national or multi-national missions and will be enhanced by the re-branding of the Special Air Service as the Diverse Force Regiment, or Diverse Forces Operational Detachment–Delta, cancelling a history of male violence and colonial white supremacy whilst enhancing integration with our closest ally, and acknowledging that everyone is special.
Candidates for the Diverse Force Regiment shall undergo an intense course of diversity training and male violence awareness classes, a rigorous handicapping process shall ensure that all potential operators have an equal chance of passing selection, regardless of their efforts, abilities or motivation.
The Diverse Force Regiment has been designed to demonstrate a new capability for the Army, it stands at high readiness to deploy and lead, and is very proud of it's new regimental cap badge which takes inspiration and spirit from the Black Panther Party, it operates around the world in all environments including deserts, mountains and cities.
An unique shocking pink colour has been chosen for the Diverse Force regimental beret complemented by the rainbow stable belt, taking inspiration from the many genders and none in the new regiment, stable belts will fasten at the front with a round metal buckle bearing the Black Panther insignia from the cap badge.
The Army Diverse Operations Brigade will contribute to collective deterrence by training, advising and if necessary, accompanying partner forces across the world and is capable of operating across the full spectrum of genders, deploying diversity when and where it is least expected.
The design for the Army Diverse Operations Brigade formation flash is inspired by the flag of the gay rights movement in acknowledgment and recognition of their shared heritage and history.
It is part of the newly established United Kingdom Diverse Operations Force and will be routinely deployed alongside partner forces around the world to counter Violent Male Extremist Organisations and carbon emmissions threats.
The Diverse Force Regiment, initially announced earlier this year, will stand-up on 30 February 2023, commencing cadres and training for its four Diverse Strike Squadrons."
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