Hundreds of senior officers and civil servants at the Ministry of Defence are to be axed as part of widespread redundancies next year.
The move corrects an imbalance that had attracted ridicule and criticism that the department was bloated with top brass.
Critics had pointed out that the UK funds as many as three or four times as many officers as the US Marine Corps despite the British armed forces now being about the same size.
The MoD will cut some 700 senior officers above the rank of colonel next year and another 335 before 2020, according to a report in the Guardian.
The latest cuts will be announced on January 17.
Plans to cut up to 60,000 posts from the military and MoD civil servants over the next seven years have already been unveiled.
The regular army is expected to come down to 82,000 men and women, with another 40,000 serving in the territorial reserves.
The Royal Navy and Royal Air Force will cut at least 7,000.Read more: Sky News
But it is the cuts to the top brass which will have a dramatic effect on major generals, rear admirals and air vice marshals - not least because those who have jobs that cannot be abolished will be replaced by much cheaper civil servants if there is no reason to suggest that a military officer can do the job.
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