Infantry Unit Tactics, Tasks, Weapons, and Organization

[William F. Owen]

All the posts just lead me to believe that we are failing to understand what the Old Fox said (Ken White). There is no right size squad! The right size squad will depend on the mission... the enemy....the terrain....troops you have.....time to figure..

Well I agree and that was pretty much where I started from. That is why you need principles of organisation - but you also need a basic TOE as a starting point, and weapons as only 25% of what you need to consider.

Perhaps a modular approach would be more appropriate whether peace time or not. Effectively the rifle platoon would be composed of a number of functional teams (of various and appropriate sizes) and about 3 group leaders which would then be tasked organized by the platoon leader.
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I wrote an article on the Fire team Groups a while ago... maybe that could form the basis of something....