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@KevinB coined it first and I've plagiarized it shamelessly and often since Back in the 1960s and into the 1980s we had 4 CMBG - a heavy mech brigade - with all its kit there albeit it was downsized in around 1970 (the year of the Trudeau slaughter). 4 CMBG was basically stand alone at first...

As I said, I'm open and wouldn't stand in the way of either. It's easy at the DP1 level where both ptes and 2Lts come in and take either a basic infantry or basic crewman course and then get posted to a specific unit where additional courses/training on type is given. It gets more tricky for a...

Not in my mind. At the end of the day, the infantry skills of grenadiers are not much different from the light folks barring the riding around in metal shells and the place to dismount - to be specific it is easier to have a common training system for infanteers of all stripes rather than to...

Yup. tracked IFVs for heavy combined arms forces, wheeled APCs for medium infantry - like Germany uses Puma and Lynx for combined arms Panzergrenadiers and Boxer for Jaegers. I'm not saying there isn't a roll for armoured wheeled vehicles - combined arms isn't one of them. $0.02 🍻

Interesting this. The article describes it as a replacement for the CVR(T) but I'm not sure if some of these are in use as IFVs with the two mech battalions in the Latvian mechanized infantry brigade. With two batches of 42 it seems that this is probably where the ASCODs will go. This...

I don't have one for my napkin models. At it's largest, my CA has 30,000 regulars and 50,000 ARes (not counting National Guard organizations) organized into three homeland A2/AD divisions, three expeditionary armd/mech divisions and one general support division. The employment concept is...

I think so too, but in a scenario where we do not commit more than a division to an expeditionary mission, then we have to either: a) allocated corps level Canadian resources, which the Canadian division may need to draw on, to the appropriate multi-national corps; or b) allocate those...

My quick and dirty answer is that the div does not need an aviation brigade nor should it be burdened with the sustainment needs of one. Divisions do need UAV resources - IMHO that runs from SUAS down and loitering/strike munitions that reach out to the division's AO and slightly beyond...

News release from 6 CCSB Meanwhile in Shilo at 1 RCHA Ubique 🍻

I hope to hell that we don't want the bde comd to own any of that. We need to think div, and/or being part and parcel to a div, which div is itself supported by either a corps or theatre support structure. Divs need to remain small and manoeuvrable and bdes even smaller and leaner. If more...

And then there's this one.

I'm surprised there were no casualties that day in the officer category. 🍻

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I find the term "cavalry" as meaningless as "armour" and I find the RCAC's attempt to make one fit quite different circumstances in order to simplify the training regime as inherently confusing. In my mind there are two different fights in a division - a close fight and a deep fight. Both...

I really don't disagree with some of the arguments for why "manoeuvre warfare" is dead, at least in the current situation in Ukraine (and possibly in Latvia) but I don't quite agree with the extension of that to the RCAC. Inevitably when we predict the future of warfare and point ourselves in...

My focus is on the following words: "the normies wrestling the wheel away from the favoured and moneyed political establishment." The first part deals with the use of the word "normies." which characterizes the core Trump supporters as part of the "normal" part of the US population. The fact...

I'm pleased to see it looks at both wheeled and tracked options . . . unlike the IFM RFI which stacked the odds against tracked with its 80kmh speed requirement. 🍻

Mods - If there's a better place for this please move it. From Noah 🍻

Are you listening to yourself? :unsure:

Yeah, if you want to just leave it as a generic ground based air defence then "GBAD" by itself would probably do. Just remove the FOBS stuff. Do you still have the ability to edit the title or is that a moderator job? I have to say that "FOBS" get's me thinking of forward operating bases and...