Ghatak Platoons
I did recently hear about the Indian army Ghatak platoons, presumably platoons in infantry battalions with much-improved training, ambition and meant for difficult missions.
The concept reminds me a bit of the Kommandozüge of German Cold War airborne brigades (or battalions, I'm not sure), which are now understood to be predecessors of the KSK.
Do we have any Indians here who can shine some light on the Ghatak Platoons and their concept?
Last edited by Fuchs; 08-28-2012 at 01:16 AM.
Meh.
Sometimes I misunderstand "U.S.-centric" with "anglophone" and imply some sort of connection with people in the Commonwealth as I learned to expect it of the British ...
1.2 billion people, 1.3 million soldiers, literate in English, neighbour of Pakistan, Neighbour to the insurgencies on Nepal, Myannmar and Sri Lanka, hosting its own (Naxalite) insurgency - yet no discernible presence in the SWC forum.
Fuchs,
We do have one active poster 'Ray', a retired Indian Army officer and only last week another ret'd Lt. General joined, 'rwac48'.
Last edited by davidbfpo; 08-28-2012 at 10:24 PM.
davidbfpo
The topic might get more notice if it were in the South Asia section.
Last edited by davidbfpo; 08-29-2012 at 08:55 AM. Reason: Noted and moved to the RFI thread
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Fuchs, will you keep me up to date on what you find out. I have sometimes thought of a unit that sounds close to this concept for US Army units. I see big challenges in making something like that work though. Kinda like the SOC section of a MEU(SOC).
Reed
Originally Posted by sapperfitz82
I have doubts about me making progress on this topic.
Even the apparently similar Kommandozüge of our airborne (para) brigades are a mystery to me (albeit two of my trainers in basic were actually by sheer chance former Kommandozug junior NCOs!).
Our mountain brigade(s) has/had a dedicated high altitude platoon full of men with special climbing training and afaik certification as trainers for it. Another analogy.
Because sadly it is not as fancy as discussing fifth generation fighters and aircraft carriers.
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