Officials in the United Kingdom continue to chastise leaders in nations such as Chad, Syria, India, Thailand and Myanmar, for their use of child soldiers, but the U.K.’s own Minister for Armed Forces Personnel allows people as young as 16 to enlist and serve in the British Army. Britons as young as 16 have served their country as recently as the
For British Army, Most New Recruits Are Child Soldiers
Like Iran and North Korea, the British Army actively recruits and enlists soldiers under the age of 18, even though they can’t legally be sent into combat.