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    Thinking about the Infantry Attack

    McBreen has posted his 300 Assaults document to his website. It has some additional material in the Appendixes such as how to train some of the findings in the report. https://2ndbn5thmar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/300-Assaults-McBreen-230601.pdf
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    Thinking about the Infantry Attack

    That is a good observation. Just going through Watling's newest report. Russians are blowing the lead portions of trenches while Ukrainians are fighting through as they withdraw from the posn instead of striking it with pre-registered arty. Reinforces out practice of not consolidating on the...
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    The Defence

    Yup. We've discussed this a number of times on here over the years. Probably a few pages back in this very thread. Even providing some very basic protective obstacles to posns, like wire beyond hand grenade range, would add some much needed realism and would likely change the caluculus...
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    The Defence

    That's the case if you don't have your soldiers and jr leaders off doing patrols. I'd also consider having them do the siting of the alternate and dummies. Kill off some CoC or have them otherwise indisposed (higher level rehearsals as an example) and start having Sect Comd's site platoons and...
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    Thinking about the Infantry Attack

    Great video. Concur with your observations. A few others. I would classify what they did as dismounting on the objective. Infanteer and I have beat the drum against this for a while but all the videos I see has them dismounting on the objective. Perhaps time to rethink it. I have, however...
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    The Defence

    Not sure I concur with that based on the standard of defensive tasks in the army. To be fair I've been out of the Bn for 4 years now so perhaps things have gotten better, but I have heard the opposite. Siting a posn to be survivable while integrating ISR, fires, and obstacles is a deliberate...
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    Infantry Tactics

    Wilf Owen proposing an approach to Infantry doctrine/organization/tactics he refers to as Patrol Based Infantry Doctrine. He sees the 3-5 man det trained to conduct a recce patrol and an OP as the foundation of all infantry employment. An idea I am somewhat sympathetic to but then I also look at...
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    Army doctrine and its Implementation

    In defence of our training construct it is meant to demonstrate that commanders can coordinate combined arms. A hasty attack necessitating a breach is a good vehicle for this. Again, the problem isn't the hasty attack, it's that it has such a dominant role in the CA. Your previous post was...
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    Army doctrine and its Implementation

    This is a good point and I had considered as part of my original post. If a systematic series of limited attacks is part of a larger approach that is based on an understanding of an enemy who habitually counter attacks then that is fine that that is going to be a great way to attrite the enemy...
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    Army doctrine and its Implementation

    I'm not convinced we fight well in the defence. The thread over in the Cbt Arms form covers this pretty well. I know we are working on it more often now, however, I think we have an underlying cultural preference for offensive ops which is informed by a history that saw us on the offence more...
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    Azerbaijani and Armenian military Clashes

    Thoughts from the article. 1. We need to have the capability to significantly degrade enemy ISR capabilities. Surprise surprise. It's likely that future conflict could see the requirement to achieve "ISR Superiority," or "ISR Degradation" of the opposing force, similar to how we would seek air...
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    Seeking Advanced Squad Leader players

    Anybody played MBT? How does MBT compare to ASL?
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    Marines to Retool to Meet China Threat

    I love tactical/operational/strategic narratives.  This is a good one on the US PACFLT losing. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018/may/how-we-lost-great-pacific-war?fbclid=IwAR0n28Cf_HZr3PZFQAzz-u0WLMRhSirF6ZzPVy-o2ijwAwFlUMWxec1wcxY The Marines just recently did a significant...
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    Marines to Retool to Meet China Threat

    What I've noticed is that the discussion about the China fight is that it is always imagined in Asia and it's related waters. There's good reasons for that but what if we fought them elsewhere, like say Africa? Or what if we fight there proxies, or vice versa? Fighting actual Chinese forces in...
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