Quote Originally Posted by Distiller View Post
Would it be possible to have a basic, standardized infantry unit ("light"), and put it on trucks or HMMVVs (making it "mot"), APCs or IFVs (making it "mech" or "heavy"), and helicopters (making it "airborne/air assault"), just as the operations require? Making the mobility component a modular attachment to a standardized infantry building block, say a platoon? Could that work? And going one step further, making it "amphib", and thus taking the same standardized basic infantry unit all across the ground combat environment?
http://www.army.gov.au/lwsc/docs/Owe...l_Infantry.pdf


Possible? - sure.

Good idea? - Probably only for small armies (smaller than corps-sized).