W/rgd to organic and section heavy weapons as opposed to consolidated under here plt leader, and so on up consolidated weapons or artillery, and now MANPADS and antidrone, and Drones for reconnaissance;
Sorry you need BOTH.
And if it’s not organic, they probably won’t fire.
Or they CAN, but they won’t.
ROE etc.
Yes the Battalion should have some pure assets, but also heavy weapons and crew served defense weapons including anti drones and MANPADS are needed at the company level as well. You need firepower forward and you need assets for each level of command.
The riflemen as mainstay and the rest “support?”
> Start writing letters now. <
See Ukraine, et al.
And while you can get green troops to try anything once, IF they live THEN they won’t do that again...
The more crew served the merrier. We’re years into a full on conflict before we have a sufficient density of leadership that will listen instead of draw big arrows and scream at subordinates when the plan doesn’t happen. That takes time and a humility learned at the hands of the foe and your own conscience.
What we have is peacetime and long peace career tracks that don’t really do war, it’s too controversial and pretty much a career dead ender or at least stall out. The path to power and the path to knowledge have quite been separated and divergent a long time.
Boyd said be somebody or do something; that’s a long time ago, now if you do something the somebody’s drive you out.
They’re very good at what they do, the do somethings are pawns taken in 1-3 moves.
So in the meantime, “you’re taking the mortars, right?”
“You bet, and we’re taking ___ and ___”.
Because if what you need isn’t organic it won’t fire.
They.Won’t.Fire.
So if we have to choose, organic.
Then work its way up with the people we know fired.
W/rgd to organic and section heavy weapons as opposed to consolidated under here plt leader, and so on up consolidated weapons or artillery, and now MANPADS and antidrone, and Drones for reconnaissance;
Sorry you need BOTH.
And if it’s not organic, they probably won’t fire.
Or they CAN, but they won’t.
ROE etc.
Yes the Battalion should have some pure assets, but also heavy weapons and crew served defense weapons including anti drones and MANPADS are needed at the company level as well. You need firepower forward and you need assets for each level of command.
The riflemen as mainstay and the rest “support?”
> Start writing letters now. <
See Ukraine, et al.
And while you can get green troops to try anything once, IF they live THEN they won’t do that again...
The more crew served the merrier. We’re years into a full on conflict before we have a sufficient density of leadership that will listen instead of draw big arrows and scream at subordinates when the plan doesn’t happen. That takes time and a humility learned at the hands of the foe and your own conscience.
What we have is peacetime and long peace career tracks that don’t really do war, it’s too controversial and pretty much a career dead ender or at least stall out. The path to power and the path to knowledge have quite been separated and divergent a long time.
Boyd said be somebody or do something; that’s a long time ago, now if you do something the somebody’s drive you out.
They’re very good at what they do, the do somethings are pawns taken in 1-3 moves.
So in the meantime, “you’re taking the mortars, right?”
“You bet, and we’re taking ___ and ___”.
Because if what you need isn’t organic it won’t fire.
They.Won’t.Fire.
So if we have to choose, organic.
Then work its way up with the people we know fired.