Confused CPT

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Do they surrender to the Imperial
Remnant in this one?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_pa1...

Glad I wasn’t the only one trying to figure that out

Oh yeah. Fall is coming

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DOWN GO THE IRISH!!!!!

Oh man - we haven’t had Once an Eagle discourse in a minute!!!

(I kinda agree with the author)

An American partner force stood and fought hard for their country yet popular U.S. cultural history overlooks such sacrifice and pretends it didn’t happen? Inconceivable!

thing and IMO when the U.S. is taking a the drone always gets through mentality on recon/strike at low echelons and is not in public domain discussing what happens what a Rifle CO CDR has to fight their company and plan UAS SEAD/DEAD to get recon and then strike package in?

which would require less close fight allocations by division and less reactive oh, BCT still is stuck, here we go targeting close again to get them unstuck cause deep targeting didn’t produce a fast enough effect

Of course that could simply be a temporary shift - UAS countermeasure are a 2/3

Something I am interested to see is as ABCTs start coming w/more recon/strike UAS is does this reduce the amount of shaping by 52ID as BCTs, BNs, and COs can now shape objectives on their own through strike capabilities or enhance effectiveness through greater situational awareness by recon UAS 1/3

*STAFF munition

man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/...

Don’t worry it’ll get cancelled again after everyone gets headaches and hates it (again)

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Fuck I need hockey to be back

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One of the most interesting pieces of FICINT I’ve ever read was a short piece where we basically invent a longevity pill and so boomers just keep living and don’t pass on wealth/the torch/etc

From Armor Magazine this is also a good descriptor of that fight as well as analysis of what that means for ABCTs at the tactical level

Go down to the sources and you’ll find the RUSI report that specifically covers Robotyne in exquisite detail if you want more

www.army.mil/article/2868...

This is a great article that investigates Robotyne and how an ABCT might have to change its concept of operations (and probably its current DOTMLPF-P alignment) to compete in such an environment

mwi.westpoint.edu/the-army-and...

A year laughing at the Russians for speed running tank columns down Ukrainian highways + judging the UAF for abandoning a mechanized concept of operations in the summer of 2023…and then an AR BN tries the former, gets fucked, and does the latter 🙄🙄🙄

www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Mil...

Like there’s a RUSI article that says the initial concept of operations in late 2022 was 12 mechanized brigade can get you like 70 klicks in two weeks. I agree that was absolutely fair, but we didn’t give them 12 brigades plus enablers, and there was a very different RUAF in late ’22 vice June 23.

And switched tactics even if there weren’t heavy personnel casualties (armor formations take equipment not personnel casualties historically) even an American CDR losing as many tanks and IFVs in the first day as the entirety of Desert Storm is gonna be hesitant to keep going. 6/x

(SDZs, lack of SBF areas that are open or not mined) to get through massive subsequent obstacles. Would the ABCT get farther due to having as many tanks as apparently all twelve brigades, probably. But I would also argue, as much as we semi accurately say the Ukrainians blinked kinda rapidly 5/x

hedgerows and break up that mass before you get to the obstacles belts laid across open fields. Which means at some point if you go mech heavy for your concept of operations, you’re gonna have an armor company behind one or two engineer vehicles with limited DF support 4/x

another tank company doing the breach and then an Armor Company Team doing the assault that just pivot steers and buries any trench occupants alive. And we are heavily weighted within the ABCT towards the provision of massed, direct fire. The forest strips are going to act like modern 3/x

(we actually do have successive obstacle belts in depth over 50-60 kilometers now. We + NTC are taking notes lol). I think yes and no. Yes, AirPower will get you a lot, but I think the fundamental problem is, this isn’t the open desert, which means you can’t put an entire tank CO in a SBF to 2/x

There’s the macro let’s talk swapping all 12 UAF BDEs for 12 American ABCTs comparison and the micro-single BDE swap.

On the single BDE swap as someone in Blackhorse who sees all sorts of ABCTs attempt to fight through prepared defenses anchored on complex obstacle belts 1/x

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