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I know we've touched on this in various degrees in many other forums, but I thought I'd create a thread focusing on this. We've been focusing alot of energy on Sections, Platoon/Troops, and Company support - how about the ideal layout for a maneuver unit?
What is the consensus on the number of sub-units within a Brigade? Should an Infantry Battalion have 4 Rifle Companies, or are 3 enough to suffice? Same for an Armoured Regiment. Going off some of our "Regimental" and "Cavalry" debates, perhaps this could be stretched to that domain as well (2 Mounted Rifle Coy and 2 Recce Sqdn in a Cav Battalion).
If the Army was indeed to get a share of the 5,000 promised soldiers, would they be better used to fill the existing 12 maneuver units out with 4 maneuver sub-units or to be put towards three additional Units in a new Brigade (as it stands, I think that the new soldiers will go towards filling out the existing subunits, but I'm just posing the question).
I'm sure the argument can be made for the Artillery and the Engineers as well, but I'm a little unfamiliar with how they organize subunits. I guess the general question I'm trying to raise is:
Is manpower more effective when directed towards increasing capability at the unit level or increasing overall number of units.
Thoughts?
Infanteer
PS: Here is a similar discussion that was directed towards the Infantry Battalions.
http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/22487.15.html
I chose to post a new thread so as to look at sub-unit requirements for Combined Arms functions.
What is the consensus on the number of sub-units within a Brigade? Should an Infantry Battalion have 4 Rifle Companies, or are 3 enough to suffice? Same for an Armoured Regiment. Going off some of our "Regimental" and "Cavalry" debates, perhaps this could be stretched to that domain as well (2 Mounted Rifle Coy and 2 Recce Sqdn in a Cav Battalion).
If the Army was indeed to get a share of the 5,000 promised soldiers, would they be better used to fill the existing 12 maneuver units out with 4 maneuver sub-units or to be put towards three additional Units in a new Brigade (as it stands, I think that the new soldiers will go towards filling out the existing subunits, but I'm just posing the question).
I'm sure the argument can be made for the Artillery and the Engineers as well, but I'm a little unfamiliar with how they organize subunits. I guess the general question I'm trying to raise is:
Is manpower more effective when directed towards increasing capability at the unit level or increasing overall number of units.
Thoughts?
Infanteer
PS: Here is a similar discussion that was directed towards the Infantry Battalions.
http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/22487.15.html
I chose to post a new thread so as to look at sub-unit requirements for Combined Arms functions.