benny14 wrote:Updated infantry manpower stats.
Requirement for 14,670. Currently at 12,850
Put the two together (manpower as a fact and indirect fire assets as a proposal) and that might somehow relate to the future battlefield as played out in Ukraine since 2014: namely, Russia shortened to mere minutes the time between when their spotter drones first detect Ukrainian forces and when their precision rocket artillery wipes those forces off the map.ArmChairCivvy wrote:Saving some of the 'Cold War dinosaurs' for a rainy day (3rd tank rgmnt, in the form of Yeomanry; do the same with GMLRS and SPGs).
And our answer? Strike Bdes, of course, capable of dispersed operations and deriving from the long line of thinking as in
-U.S. Department of Defense first warned of a coming “military-technical revolution” in 1992.
- the then-Soviet military planners had been "at it" already and coined the term “the reconnaissance-strike complex” in the 1980s
- it became to be called “network-centric warfare” during the 1990s, and convinced by this “transformation” U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld thought ( ) that his first transformed division (4th if I remember correctly) was enough to keep all of Iraq in check, after the initial shock-and-awe... Shinseki balked at that kind of thinking as he thought 300k soldiers were the right answer to that question... and resigned
Well, here we are in 2019 (two experiments in BATUS completed), but the basic idea has remained the same all through:
- emerging technologies will enable new battle networks of sensors and shooters to rapidly accelerate the process of detecting, targeting, and striking threats, AKA the “kill chain.”
- sensors all very well, but without air supremacy (a tad more than superiority), on the 'shooters' side of things we seem to be a bit thin:
and even fielding that force (quickly) might only be possible with external assistance as theArmChairCivvy wrote:we have/ will have regular rgmnts/ bns
4 with Ajax (500+),
2 with CR2 (100-200),
4 WR (you could go from establishment strengths and get 200-ish; the rest of them as ABSVs), and
4 MIV (300-500)
might be so much as to reach a breaking point. "Sustain" of course has a time dimension which goes well beyond initial deployment.ArmChairCivvy wrote:pressure on the existing logistics and support force, which is structured to sustain two ‘strike’ brigades"
And from 2019 to 2023 it is some way to go, whereas news on the concept solidifying (based on the mentioned trials) seem to be sparse and indirect fires not multiplying anytime soon.
Calls for another cup of coffee (and a different topic, to avoid getting depressed )