Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
We should exploit this great time of no pressing conventional threats for experiments!
Large-scale experiments can clarify much about the organisational, technical, mental and logistical challenges.
You may want to look at the Biddle's Military Power - it has extremely good data on modern rates of advance.

Personally I use the following figures, based on the historical data I have to hand.
March = 40 km/h (convoy) - with obvious road, route and configuration modifications.
Advance to contact = 2-3 km/h - with obvious terrain modifications.

Point being, you do have to come up figures in talk about t he organisational, technical, mental and logistical challenges. - so means and averages do have place.

Instead, we're discussing how to succeed against tribal warband warfare.
Those warbands won't overrun any of our today's formal allies, ever. <- more than just opinion. This was a prediction.
Small Wars? Hmmm... go figure, but as a British Captain writing in 1905 warned loosing battles against "savages" could not loose them the Empire. Loosing a war with a European power could them the Empire and the Country.