RJ you make an excellent point.
However if we optimise forces for a specific function, rather than train them for the wide spectrum of operations which the modern day soldier has to undertake? ...
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RJ you make an excellent point.
However if we optimise forces for a specific function, rather than train them for the wide spectrum of operations which the modern day soldier has to undertake? ...
What can I say, this has been going on since Options for Change, an amazing programme where we reduced the armed forces, so that the MOD could take on more civil servants - to er manage the change?
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Ken , I like the additions, maybe we armchair generals can get a job fixing the world after all.
One can add more items or combine for a smaller number but the process remains the same; there will...
This is a great thread, certainly more dynamic than CNN & a lot more brutal.
At the end of the day the USA has set itself up as the global policeman, the US govt decreed that regime change should...
Thanks Ken,
My problem is that we seem to be assigning lots of labels to theses people - Freedom Fighters, Insurgent, Terrorist, Resistance etc. They are bandied around by the press - as you...
Who would you want to help change your tyre? The man who says I know the theory or the man that can do it?
So how do education standards affects the overall standard of our combat projection. ...
So when did guerilla warfare change to insurgency - or is it still something different, if so what are the differences?
What about the simple ones, I'm probably re-hashing some of the things that have been discussed, c'set la vie.
Reconstruction after conflict - an invaders responsibility?
The soldier of the...
I've read through most of this thread and seen a lot of informed comment, but the salient point should be not about organising around weapon systems, they change - we need to think terms of...
I tend to shudder when I hear phrases like optimise, mission specific function and other generalities. Armed Forces are just that, they are designed to protect and project force, to do so they need...