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They have the same equipment TO&E for five armoured BCTs and two Stryker BCTs as the active army - that works out to 15 combined arms battalions and six Stryker battalions. There are 5 18-gun M109A6 battalions in the ABCT and two 18-gun M777 battalions in the SBCTs. There are an additional...

How about because all of NATO, INCLUDING our dolt of a prime minister, agreed that everyone should. Worst government that I can remember - and I lived through all of Pierre and Jean's regimes. :mad:

As at 2011, the Australian army was organized into 3 active brigades, one mech, one motorized and 1 light. In addition there were ResF bdes. In 2011 they reorganized under Plan Beersheba into three active multirole symmetric brigades (more like bde groups as they each had their own arty, engr...

You know, the math isn't that hard. We have 5 paper divisions (and yes I'm counting 1 Div) 4 Reg F Bde gps and 10 Bde HQ. Redistribute those into 2 real division hq and 11 real bde HQs (lets say 2 armd, 2 mech, 2 lt, 2 arty, 1 Engr, 1 cbt sp, 1 sustainment or some variation) - 3 deployable and...

I keep saying that what you can put on a Boxer you can put on a LAV 6/ACSV chassis. The Boxer module concept is a bit off a smoke and mirrors thing. That said, the ACSV could have been modularized and future ones still could be if switching out modules from combat damaged vehicles is desirable...

Couldn't agree more. The problem is that the army still in the "deploy a battle-group based on company-sized modules" mode. This model considers a brigade headquarters as just another module that is ad hoc'd for the particular mission. That concept really only requires 1) the equipment to be...

Not sure if the 2023 Strategic Review constitutes a White Paper or no but it seems to have kicked off several matters - reducing the number Redback IFVs by 2/3, cancelling the SP howitzer program in exchange for HIMARS and returning the structure of the three active brigades back to where they...

This is from her Wikipedia page. Nothing in there qualifies her as being "media." Pretty much anyone with a computer can post on X. 🍻

Asymmetric brigades - how about that. Canada, are you watching this? 🍻

That's kind of my point. You can be victorious in your military operations, but you haven't won the war until you properly shape the peace that follows into the political results that you desire. The strategic/political planners have to foresee the next twenty years that they wish to achieve...

Not. The armistice merely paused matters and set the conditions that allowed a Hitler to rise to power and restart the conflict. I take a look at it from the point of view as to how long a peace is established and if the prior conflict's end sets the conditions for the next one. Waterloo...

She has a partial and very weak point Conceivably they could be scaled up to trigger the definition, but so could just about any weapon system. To say that a rifle bullet could be a weapon of mass destruction if you fire a billion of them at one time is equally valid and equally stupid. That...

I think that the term you are thinking of is "decoration ceremony" like this: As an aside, a "Purple Heart" is a medal given in the American armed forces to someone who has been wounded. 🍻

Is Canada back at war with Germany? I do drink their beer and eat their knackwurst. :unsure:

If it had been a win there wouldn't have been an Iraq War (GW2?). Winning a war includes winning the aftermath. 🍻

Not being too cynical here but if America got a tie that would be a step forward. The last win was WW2. The last tie was Korea. Maybe Iraq - the jury is still out. 🍻

I think that there are several like the 2S22. While it looks a bit like the Caesar, it lacks all of the loading automation that the Caesar brings. I generally don't give the French much credit for anything but the loading system on Caesar is quite neat. Not to mention that it's a far more...

Yup Found this in an article 🍻

I'm not so sure that giving Trump "credit" is the right word here. That would require some act on his part that has a positive or influential result. I don't think that he is what has put the wind up Europe but I think he has made them look more closely at both America as a whole and themselves...

Remember that this is only the author's wild as guess. I'll wait for an official announcement. 🍻