As part of a Ministry of Defence (MoD) strategy to boost homeland security, known as “hedgehog Britain,” volunteers would be drawn from the civilian population and would form local hubs around the country and deployed to safeguard assets from nuclear power stations to the telecom sites that facilitate Britain’s internet access.
The Sunday Times reported that volunteer forces will be separate from existing organisations, such as the army reserves (formerly the Territorial Army), but similar in structure, and complement existing forces.
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The review, which will be published in the coming weeks, also recommended investing in defensive shields to protect the UK from missile attacks, and wide-ranging proposals to address the recruitment and retention crises faced by the British Armed Forces.
There were more than 1.5 million Home Guard members in the UK, whose main duties were to act in the event of invasion, maintain civic order and guard key locations against possible capture by German paratroopers.
Unlike the men-only era of the Second World War, they are now largely unisex, with female divisions having been folded in during the 1980s.
The Home Guard 12,500 has active members who have been to Kosovo and Afghanistan and, pre-Russian invasion, helped to train Ukrainian troops. It has a further 45,000 reserve members.
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Read MoreMembership had dwindled during the 21st century, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw more than 29,000 Swedes applying to join in 2022 – a 619 increase from the previous year.
In Norway, people who sign up for the 45,000-strong Heimevernet or “HV” (motto: Overalt – alltid or “Everywhere, always”) will be assigned to one of 11 divisions, each divided into smaller units which cover a county.
In January, Germany’s army confirmed that it was initiating plans for a 6,000-strong homeland security army division to protect key military facilities in the event of the army being deployed to other areas such as Nato’s external borders.
Its current homeland defence units are non-active and comprise reservists, whereas the new division would become semi-active under the army’s command, and have serving army officers alongside reservists.
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