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Catering Corps. Service Corps, Corps of Signals. Medical Corps. Army Air Corps. Marine Corps. ? And let us not forget battalions that are regiments and the Regiment of regiments. Confusion is what we do.

One cap badge One Colonel of the Regiment One regiment 2 Regular battalions (under-strength the day war broke out) 1 Supplementary Reserve Battalion 5 Territorial Battalions 2 Territorial Anti-Tank Regiments 1 Territorial Heavy Artillery Regiment 1 Glider Infantry Battalion 19 Home Guard...

Israel knows that the post WW2 liberal order relies on people making decisions. They are not prepared to leave their existence in the hands of others. Might has always made right. Only the mighty can afford to be generous.

https://www.energy-reporters.com/news/drone-strike-revolution-new-weapon-destroys-targets-in-minutes-as-tensions-soar-to-unprecedented-heights/ Drones from drones. Reaper launches Switchblade at Yuma.

Nuremberg notwithstanding the German defence is the only valid defence. I followed orders. Soldiers are employed by the state to exercise the sovereign state's monopoly on death. Soldiers are hired to kill. The only people who get to decide who they kill in a democracy are the people's...

Related thoughts Static defence and base defence. Here I see a role for tracks as well. But uncrewed tracks. Rather than fixing guns, missiles and radars in place, allowing the enemy to template them and requiring crews to move to them to service them, allow them to move. Put them on tracks...

There will be war. In the same vein: There will be tanks. There will be helicopters. Assaults have to happen. Tanks are required for assaults. Assaults will be opposed. Protection will be required. Protection costs weight. Weight is best managed on tracks. There will be tracks. Those...

Yer haverin'. If the Scots ruined Scotland its only because they came from Ireland. The Picts and Alba!!!

I am glad to hear that. The combination of the local Combat Information Centre multi-tasking, together with the Cooperative Engagement Capability, managing multiple domains and targets with a variety of systems has long appealed to me as an avenue worth investigating. Especially with the...

And you can throw in the whole IAMD issue as well. Integrated Air Missile Defence can be a mix of air, sea, space, cyber and ground assets targeting the spaces between the bases with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, drones, LAMs and EW/Cyber effects launched from satellites, ships, subs...

I agree with you, as usual, but.... No matter how bright the CDS may be she only has one brain. She has available to her 130,000 civvy, reg and res brains working all her problems on a daily basis. Those brains need to be given the freedom to explore their "one-off" solutions on the company...

We did. But the army is not a democracy, let alone a kirk session.😉

What is the difference between a light infantry regiment mounted on ISVs or a Cavalry Regiment? Can they both be assigned to sense and screen tasks?

Herr Gott. Muessen wir alles spezialistischen haben? How many specialists in all these novel technologies were there in the Ukrainian forces when this latest unpleasantness broke out? Most of the new stuff has been debeloped by hobbyists and people like Magda who have been making everything...

"What? Was that a Russian jet? It didn't identify itself so we shot it down? I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you. My condolences to his family." And the hybrid war continues. Nobody knows nuffink about nuffink, no how.

2907 hours Divide that into 40 minute periods and you have 4360 periods of instruction spread over three years. 4360 periods 8 periods a day 545 days of instruction 5 days of instruction per week 109 weeks of instruction 9 months of instruction per year 75% of a year 39 weeks of...

That too.

It occurs to me the Army Reserve would benefit from a Book of Common Prayer. Every week every unit in every armoury is doing the same thing.

I see the "mandatory" issue as a simple contractual obligation. You sign on the dotted line both parties have mutual obligations of which regular pay is but one part. In return for regular pay the private contractor is required to present themselves, in all respects, ready for training and...

I am always astounded at the importance of concidence? Or is it synchronicity? Once again today's papers yield another timely article. https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-battle-of-novodarivka-part-ii-the-challenge-of-combined-arms-on-tomorrows-battlefield/ How do you make an ABCT relevant again...