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At least you're not shy of letting your RCAS anchoring bias show. Is there an advantage to teaching people one complete set of skills (indirect fires) and then teaching them a completely different set of skills (uncrewed system operations) and then having them try to retain both in a career...

Or take the Ukrainian approach and essentially create a new occupation - Uncrewed System Operator.

All analogies are suspect, that's why they are generally not very useful. Yours implies there is some sort of sovereign wall that should prevent outside intervention into the conflict. I alluded to the fact that the US proposal out in left field, but "US legitimacy" is not a factor, anymore...

Your house is occupied by a gangster who runs the show, and used the house to try and burn down the neighbourhood across the street. The analogy could be spun back over decades of grievances. Although Trump's proposal is right out in left field, I have to give the Administration credit for...

I think he will be remembered as one of the better elder Statesman in the US following his presidency as opposed to his actual term in office.

If you can manage the basket weaving, you can manage the train line....

If this was a thing, there would be a 108 page discussion on Army.ca about it.

No, nobody has heard a thing about this. Where are you getting this information?

Nuns?

Read the history of St Patrick's Day parades in Toronto. Nothing new to see here.

Probably a tangent thread split, but the Russo-Ukrainian War is probably a good reminder that for much of our operational history we never saw Engineers below the brigade level and that even brigade was a bit of a stretch.

Sure, if we were fighting in red outfits in one big extended line with rifles.

A unit with any amount of sub-units can only manage as many tasks as its Comd and HQ can process. The Infantry Battalion had four companies because in 1912 it was decided to merge the existing eight coys in an Infantry Battalion to form "double companies" better suited for open order "Boer"...

I don't agree, having commanded tank/infantry elements in both peace and war as part of both mech and light infantry bns. Tank/infantry cooperation is not black magic, and light forces should be expected to work with tanks if they are available as operational analysis has shown the synergy will...

How so?

That's an interesting take on things, but makes a lot of assertions that are incorrect. An infantry battalion in the 1980s was not configured for "independent action." It was, like today, designed to fight a unit-level engagement as part of a brigade fight. Battalion combat support elements...

I find it goofy that we would consider two different occupations based on the drivetrain of a vehicle that may or may relevant to the tactical task.

Why three trades? What's wrong with the two that currently exist?

As the article stipulates, that's for western provided 155mm and 105mm guns. Ukraine also has a a significant requirement for 122mm/152mm shells as well as mortar rounds and rockets (both 122mm as well as NATO 227mm). That number is easily doubled.

From Russia's perspective, the calculus makes no sense to me. Why would Russia trade land it has (unlawfully) annexed and occupied by force next to its borders in exchange for a US withdrawal from the hinterland of Syria, something it will eventually have to do anyways and that it's said that...