Uniform Inequality: who the British Armed Forces recruit, and who they leave behind

AOAV’s report finds that Britain’s Armed Forces remain marked by class, gender and racial inequalities, with recruitment drawn from deprived youth, officer ranks dominated by the elite, and women and ethnic minorities facing persistent barriers despite diversity pledges — and sets out ways to fix it.

AOAV’s Executive Director, Dr Iain Overton, appears on the BBC’s Points of View to discuss the series ‘Soldier’

AOAV’s Iain Overton spoke to the BBC. He said it was important that their docuseries acknowledged that the primary focus of military training is, in the end, about killing.