 They would need to be organised in peacetime and prepared to mobilise in the United Kingdom, as they would be committed into action as soon as they reached the Continent.Because the Army was now geared to a specific purpose, it could be reorganised to fit this role, and any elements which did not support it could be discarded.These reforms anticipated that the existing tripartite division of the Army—the Regular Army, the Volunteers/Yeomanry and the Militia—should be changed into a two-part structure, with an Expeditionary Force and a home-defence Territorial Force based on County Associations.