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Here's my solution for those interested.  Diagram attached.  I think it's solution 2 above?  Happy to hear any critique. For me it was fairly clear that I had to prioritise controlling the river to enable my boss and boss's boss but I put some thought into whether the enemy in GOAT was really a...

Finally got mine in.

I do love me some TDG action. I’ll try to get to this over the weekend between the At Home, Kids Christmas Party and Subbies Carolling.  Sunday could be painful...

Important here is that according to these Generals it was Russia directing operations.  Unlikely we'd take such an approach.  It's a lot easier to achieve unity of effort if you've got something approximating unity of command.  Having said that I suspect it is far from that clear on the ground...

Had a chat with the British DS who is course officer for CTCC this year.  He confirmed for me that the British within a BG context will keep the Squadron together.  Intimate support tanks will merry up in the attack position with Companies then cut back to the squadron one given the punch...

Those are some great observations.  Very interesting. We're a small army and so we pride ourselves on being competent at levels like Coy and Cbt Tm but by saying things like "the Cbt Tm is the Canadian Army Vital Ground" we've situated the estimate a little bit.

I'm sitting in on all the candidate back briefs to 9er this year and it's very interesting to see how similar the COAs are between candidates for destroying particular objectives.  I would say that after a few days to a week of cbt with us an enemy could probably template us pretty well and we'd...

Ah yes, the ol' OBG.  I remember those days.  The problem with that was there was no guarantee that the standing organization was appropriate for whatever force employment opportunity came along.  There was also the difficulties of expertise in training the other elms of the unit which the CO...

I'm out supporting Ex Common Ground and this year's Combat Team Commander's Course features a lot of regrouping on the fly.  While regrouping is supposed to be something we're to be good at and it should be a drill it induces significant friction.  Ensuring radios get on the right freq, moving...

I would suggest that these actually aren't text book cases for our purposes here.  The Iraqis had zero capability to conduct surveillance from the sky so making a huge left hook into the tractless desert wasn't that hard.  They also didn't realize or were ignorant to the capability of GPS and so...

I was lucky enough to spend the last 10 days in the UK and France on a staff ride of the Western Front from WW 1 with the British Army.  The Brits have done a similar ride every two years for the last six years and have been using it for force development purposes so it's less about the history...

I have heard of VASSAL.  I'll hit you up sometime.

I was playing starter kit 1 and 3 until my partner in crime got posted to Ottawa. Great game.  I suspect that me and him were messing up the rules here and there though as we were completely reliant on the rule book.  Those vehicle rules could really get you sometimes. I really wanted to get...

Roger. As a bit of an aside I was struck by a bit of a dichotomy between the tactical and operational levels and the strategic.  At the lower levels we want to defeat the enemy's will as it's less costly to do, however, at the strategic level we may need to destroy the enemy's capabilities if...

Interesting read here that I think fits under this (rather old but classic) thread.  Bit of tease of some research to come but worth the short read. https://wavellroom.com/2018/09/25/slaughter-manoeuvre-infantry-and-psychology/ Quantification of tactical actions is always difficult but, I...

While thinking on this, and swapping PMs with Infanteer I think the real question here isn't whether or not we should dismount on or short of the objective but what assumptions we want to build in to our people as part of foundational training.  Anyone can agree on extreme cases for dismounting...

To play the devil's advocate, the argument is that the biggest killer of infantry on the battlefield is IDF (mortars and arty) and MGs.  Most people want to move through these weapons effects as quickly as possible and the LAVs armour is sufficient for dealing with MG and IDF (outside DPICM like...

The saga continues....  We did PD today on cbt tm ops and I and the CO and a few OCs began discussing where to dismount.  Most people thought that the best bet was getting as close to the objective as possible before dismounting.  I am apparently not a very persuasive speaker!  Anyway, just sent...

Daft, I had a feeling you'd weigh in on this.  Did the CO and OC's consistently attend sect and platoon PT as opposed to doing their own thing those days?

PT is back on the minds of sr leaders of 2 CMBG.  It's something the Bde Comd wants to reinvigorate and he's engaging CO's on it on a regular basis on wants regular returns on what unit PT plans are. I've been putting some thought into this and I sent an email to my boss the other day on the...