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Harald Gormsson's avatar

This is wild. A brigade almost completely focused on short range and short term close combat. Note the almost complete absence of sustainment units. Even if you assume some of the personnel with undefined duties are medics, supply personnel, mechanics and armorers, this organization would not be able to fight for very long. It would probably be able to fight for a few days, but it would run out of all internally available commodities and not be able to fix its own equipment unless resupplied and supported from outside organizations. Why horse drawn machine guns if your artillery battalion is motorized? And no scouts, mortars or radios? Seriously?

Kindly redo this proposal Major Patton and resubmit!

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James Ackerman's avatar

This screams of von Schell even more than the companies did. I don't remember if it was in The Soldier's Load or Battle Leadership, but I definitely remember von Schell criticizing mortars for maneuver elements

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