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Came across this video about Iran's geography. It doesn't address any of today's events but does provide some interesting insights into the problems for anyone planning operations within Iran and how the geography favours its defenders. 🍻

"Proudly" wear onions on our belts! :giggle:

Not prior to the start of the Cold WAar. 🍻

This is brilliant. :ROFLMAO:

I've lost a bit of touch with the divisional level thinking beyond the 1980s. I frankly didn't think there was except at the staff course level. By 1989 the theoretical structure of the DISGP was for it to own all CSS elements and to allocate a service battalion per manoeuvre brigade and had an...

My problem is that the plan is not obvious from square 1. 2 Div appears to be either a poor end product or an undefined holding pattern for something that hasn't been invented yet. When I look at para 15 of the CAMO I see a capability wish list but not a focussed plan nor even a hint of a...

I'm of the same mind but rather than forming three divs on mobilization you start with three divs. With roughly 30,000 as the primary target for the ARes plus lets' say 5,000 RegF to administer, maintain and train them, that works out two two Defence of Canada divisions (one east one west) and a...

I'm not sure where things are going right now with the organization. There are folks working on rewriting the doctrine and I'm not sure if its settled enough yet. I do know that each RCHA regt is going back to three gun batteries and eliminating the OP bty and STA battery by reducing the baty...

The current plan calls for 3 x RCHA SP regiments (i.e. 54 guns) and the school and spares and forward deployed (say appx 24) for a total of 78 guns. The RFI calls for 80 to 102. If 80 then none for the ARes. If 102 then conceivably 3 or four batteries of SPs could got to the ARes albeit I...

Indirectly yes, but the size of the division determines its capability. Their is a strong body of thought - which I agree with - that the capability of a division - its ability to manoeuvre and fight - peaks at around 10-11,000 troops and 2,000 vehicles. Moreover, with a lighter more compact...

I am too. But I'm pessimistic. There is no reason why the full strategy for the 2 Div was not worked out concurrently with 1 Div and in a comprehensive process, it needed to be. 2 Div is an afterthought, and the formation of the CARBs is a knee jerk reaction. In saying that I admit that...

This is far from a recent thing. The disdain of the regular force for the reserve force goes back almost to when the permananet active militia was formed. Relegating the reserves to stuff the regular force doesn't like and which it thinks interferes with its preparation for combat is a thing...

I have no idea where you are going with this. It's not a political issue. It's internal to the thinking process within the army that favours strategic mobility over tactical mobility. IMHO, the concept of strategic mobility is a chimera. No it isn't. It's the army's job to be prepared for the...

As we all know there are three key elements to a defence budget: personnel costs, O&M and capital acquisitions. Canada's budget gets stuck. Personnel costs are virtually impossible to reduce because the number of personnel is already at its lowest. O&M has been poorly funded for some time and...

I think one has to look at the timeframe when talking Harper. In the early years he was quite supportive and he approved the acquisition of the Leo 2 and Leslie's Future Family of Combat Vehicles program which brought LAV UP and TAPV and was steering to CCV and HIMARS. When CCV was cancelled it...

DLR 2 - are you paying attention to this? 🍻

That . . . is . . . brilliant! :ROFLMAO:

Here's a video with a bit more of an explanation of the wheeled K9. It adds a few points such as that the turret system is vehicle agnostic and that there is a wheeled ammo resupply vehicle. Looking at the two turrets, they look different externally with the one on the wheeled chassis being...

Honest - its a bit like the air campaign from Desert Storm mixed with the slow mission creep that marked the early years of Vietnam. :unsure:

Or we could just strap the damn thing across the chest, like the French, and never move it from there throughout the parade. 🍻