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I read a book called Breaking the Phalanx and its update Transformation Under Fire, both by a retired colonel named Douglas Macgregor.

In his book we should concentrate on Combat Groups instead of...

I know it was just a joke.:D

Well though they say that the King of Battle is Artillery and the Queen of Battle is the Infantry.

I have this input..... the God of Battle is Armor.

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This whole thing leads me to my own conclusions.

The literature that I am reading has the Marine squad doing the three teams bit. However as James Webb wrote once the team takes two casualties...

So basically a two team squad would work. Each team has a machine gun.

However from two studies conducted in 1946 and during the Vietnam war, they concluded that two machine guns only resulted in...

So in essence it is not the squad or the squad size but rather how they are trained? If that is the case then why are some Marine squad leaders in Iraq are splitting their squads into two teams of 6...

Last thing so basically an infantry company is best organized with 4 17-20 man sections divided into "teams". Because these enlarged squads don't need to be organized into platoons. Right?

It's all good. Your explanation is helpful.

So basically having an independent Squad Leader (SL) and an Assistant Squad Leader (ASL) to make up a squad of 3 teams each with 4 troops centered...

No, I spent all my time with tanks. I lack the experience of small unit tactics since the use of tanks is inherently for large scale battle and often employed as a battalion. I know that the future...

with all this deliberation, what is the ideal rifle squad and platoon organization, in all of yall's opinion.