Quote Originally Posted by Cavguy View Post
The one good thing about the new proposed org is that it does have a much more robust infantry presence than the current BCT's, and back to three maneuver BN's as well.

Below is a slide I pulled from Knox's website. Full brief is here.
It may have more infantry, but there are some very flawed assumptions underpinning the idea.

I am sure it was done by good and patriotic men, but it seems to reflect a world and style of operations they would would like to believe in, rather than one, that empirical observation shows to us.

Here is one little gem of "illogic"

Operates for three days at high operational intensity and up to seven days in a medium to low operational environment before it must be resupplied
So "high intensity" is defined as something that is 3:7 versus medium of low. - and that is for ammunition rates, as batteries, water and rations, all have to resupplied regardless. I am assuming fuel/POL is also in there somewhere.

Someone may want to read Julian Thompson's assessment of logistics operations in the Falklands, before assuming those ratios