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I assume DAD is Directorate of Army Doctrine or something like that? Seriously though what do they do? Does anyone have experience writing doctrine?  My understanding is that current infantry doctrine has been farmed out to the infantry school and has been given as a secondary duty for course...

Thanks.  It's been great and getting the gazette every month for the past 4 yrs has been helpful. The marines really believe in their intellectual capital and professional devt.  As part of the course we write papers, go on battle studies, receive visits senior ranking pers and do the normal...

I'm currently attending Expeditionary Warfare School with the USMC which is their AOC equivalent.  I've had the opportunity to read a lot of USMC doctrine and a lot of US Army as well.  What has struck me is the quantity in that they actually cover off everything the force is expected to do, the...

Thanks for reminding there.  You of course are correct and the same goes for the trucks in the Log units as well, the guns, HIMARS, and all other cbt support.  Those assets are held at Division with the Regiments being infantry pure with either 3 or 4 Bns and having these assets attached to form...

I was referring to us. The Marines have a scout sniper platoon of four teams vs our recce platoon and our sniper "platoon".  Our Sense capability is substantially more. Marines have no pioneers.

I'm not proposing the adoption of USMC T/O completely and I'm not advocating 180 man coy.  I think we need to look at our coy level T/O in light of the adoption of the C16 and I think a C16 sect will likely be the best place for this wpn.  If we were to adopt that organization then I think it...

I think they present a potential example  for the near future/now.  I haven't read this whole thread in a couple years so I don't remember how we're defining "tomorrow" but with us acquiring wpns like the C16 I think we should take a look at specialist orgs within rifle coys and Bn's and take a...

Rifle Coy's essentially have none.  I believe they have one humvee for the Gunny to run supplies.  The BN *MAY* have enough trucks to motorize a company (but that isn't by T/O as I understand).  The Bn has sufficient humvees to combine the Anti Armor platoon and the hvy MG platoon and create...

About 180 pers in the Coy.  3 x Rifle pl's with 3 x 13 man squads. 1 x wpns pl with a MG sect (6 x M240), Assault sect (6 x SMAW), and a mortar sect (3 x 60mm mortars). All these can be attached to the pl's but they can also be massed at the coy level.  I really like this system.  It forces the...

I'm training with the Marines right now and how they organize their coy's along with us acquiring the C16 has got me thinking about going back to specialist organizations.  I don't think the infantry platoon is currently organized to properly employ this weapon, its just too damn big and I think...

It was weird enough leaving it in American hands in Aug 2010....

Anybody have an org chart or anything for TFK in those last couple of years?  I'm giving a presentation at the Marines' Expeditionary Warfare School and I'd like to speak about our years in Kandahar.

There's a discussion on here (maybe its the maneuver corps one I can't remember) that found an old WW2 Canadian Pam and it identifies the role of both corps as to close with and destroy the enemy.  I like this as the more I think I about it I see the armored and infantry corps as being able to...

Assuming the US decided to follow the authors advice and decided to prepare for war with China what would be its cassus belli? Would Taiwan continue to be seen as an ally that had to be protected? Access to resources in the South China sea between China and other SE Asian states or free movement...

Old Sweat, raises a valid point.  With the proliferation of UAV's to include non state actors a requirement has arrisen to be able to locate and destroy these things.  I don't think we need something like ADATS to accomplish this, and maybe we don't need a trade dedicated to it either but there...

Thanks guys. One of the key differences between conventional operations and COIN is the importance of tempo.  In COIN it is much less important in terms of the tactical level, whereas in conventional ops there is a great emphasis placed on reacting quicker than the enemy at all levels.  Have...

Here is another good article, but longer.  It often makes reference to the degradation of the IDF's conventional capabilities due to their prolonged engagement in the second Intifada.  http://carl.army.mil/download/csipubs/matthewsOP26.pdf

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_documents/121121_2CR_JMRC_13_01_Collection_Report1.pdf http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/11/21/a_worrisome_report_on_the_eroded_combat_skills_of_an_army_stryker_regiment...

Very interesting.  Goes to show that even secretive units need to have a level of transparency in certain areas if they want to continue to operate with the consent of the public.  This could turn into a dog's breakfast if enough people caught on to it. Now that the member is no longer in JTF 2...

Good point dangerboy a guess a C6 in non SF role or a C9 would have a larger angle. Anyone have any ideas on which doc is correct regarding beaten zones?