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I agree fully and would say the same for most fields where I would not consider command above sub-unit level viable for peart-time reservists. Even in the legal field where the civilian legal practice was a close analogue to military law, I was convinced that ResF Legal Os could only master...

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He's certainly given the US defence industry work for years to come. I expect they dug deeper into their arsenal than just the the stuff reaching the end of its shelf life. 🍻

So here's a quick laydown for the army's Phase 2 field force restructure that I see. (Phase 1 would be the initial restructure based on today's authorized personnel strength and equipment. Phase 2 represents the expanded end state for the fully manned and equipped army) Remember that I make...

And work more than 7 hours a day and five days per week. That's no problem for the trainees but needs a few extra instructors. 🍻

@ytz, its not just your posts its a number of them from earlier this morning. Yours have left me wondering exactly what you are arguing for. I think @Infanteer has brought some order into the discussion with his recent posts albeit there are elements he hasn't touched on. So. To address your...

Boy. Some of the earlier posts today have me quite down. We seem to be settling into "no we can't do that' it's just too damn difficult" mood. That's where we seem to differ. I not only think that we can but we need to do it because we are going to be running into conflicts that are no longer...

Currently correct. The theory is if you can stop the threat beyond our borders then you are winning. The problem is that the future is unpredictable. Who foresaw Czechoslovakia in '68, the Falklands, the Gulf Wars, Afghanistan, Ukraine? As Robert Gates once said in a speech at West Point about...

Interesting chart when you see the drop during Republican presidency years, an upsurge during Obama, a weak temporary stabilization during Biden's disintegrating at the end and a jump off the cliff during Trump's two turns. There was a time when Republican administrations brought stability. Long...

This is absolutely the right thread. ARes restructure should always be a part of the army's overall restructure. A separate process has historically been doomed to failure. 🍻

That's a tough one for me. I've been a supporter of Israel going back to the 1967 war. I mostly still am considering the distain that I have for their opponents. I'd like to think that this would be beneath them but am not sure of them as much as I used to be. That said, I can't conceive of any...

Too bad its behind a paywall. I'd like to see the details of how the time zones justified that. Just as an added comment. The flip side of this is the lengths lawyers have to go through to collect their accounts receivable for real work done. :giggle:

I know that's what you meant. And I'm saying that the system would allow for a deliberate targeting of that building under inaccurate intelligence but would never allow for its targeting if the facts known to the targeteers was that it was a school occupied by children. Even the Trump regime is...

Solid leadership develops plans that is able to reach consensus and when consensus is unreachable for irrelevant reasons take action to make the plan reality. That presupposes that the plan is a feasible one that takes all valid objections into account and has the confidence of the command team...

In a way it was both but not quite the way you put forward. The targeting cycle for air strikes is a fairly exact process. The results are more than likely one of the following two situations: 1) a target close to the school was the intended target but there was a technical glitch (mechanical...

Boy! Who hurt you this time? The answer to your question is in the highlighted words. The PRes and the ARes, in particular, hunger for real tasks. They didn't during Afghanistan. And the view was almost unanimous from both the RegF and the ARes that the system wouldn't have made it without them...

This brings up an older Monk Debate from 2018. The resolution was: "Be it resolved that what you call political correctness, I call progress." The fun part was that Stephen Fry argued against the resolution at the side of his partner Jorden Petersen. Ignore the initial long-winded bumph and go...

Yup. Very roughly it is 2,200 kms in length and 1,200 kms across at its widest point. Again very roughly speaking that's the size of the US running from the top of Maine to half way into Florida and lying between the eastern sea cost and the Mississippi River. The defenders' advantage is that...

That's what I took it as. Effectively that's what you get in my model. two brigades, three manoeuvre units (tank or armoured infantry) each, six in total. One CS regiment per brigade (total two) with three gun/one STA/loitering-batteries each. In short, each of the six manoeuvre units is...