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My goodness this thread has diverted. "Attrition warfare" was a strawman created to support the existence of "manoeuvre warfare." This then gets even more confusing because we use the term manoeuvre for several things. The attrition warfare strawman uses WW1 battles where western front...

The Cdn-led eFP BG is, actually, quite big. I imagine he was referring to the eFP BG writ-large. Having enemy-force exchanges like this is excellent. Good training for all involved.

Land Ops is a bit over-stuffed, but I am not sure what is confusing about this part? Land Ops describes the basic force elements: combat elements, combat support elements, combat service support element and command support elements. Its a useful breakdown. It adds combat arms as a colloquial...

Not sure what you are worrying about here for terminology? "Doctrine" wise we have the following from Land Operations: Combat Elements - those that engage the enemy directly (armour, infantry, direct fire units). Considered ground manoeuvre units. Combat Support Elements - fire support...

An NCE does not have to be large, but I don't think it would make sense to roll it into the multi-national (or US) division to which a CMBG would be attached. That Div HQ would be focused on prosecuting the fight - they don't need NCEs attached to them. I would expect to find the NCE somewhere...

If we have Canadian troops on an operation then we need some form of NCE. There are bone fide national command requirements that need to be met. An NCE relieves the Brigade HQ of that. We also need some form of NSE, apart from the CSS that is with the fighting formation and any allied CSS...

Brigade Commanders have training and experience and are enabled by a staff and arms advisors. The load required for synchronization of combat power at that level is considerable, but they have staff to help. They have CO Guns, CO Engineers and CO Svc Svc Bn as advisors, each with their own...

Good little video there - thanks for sharing! Watching guys mounting and dismounting from moving AFVs gave me a few starts. As a tanker I certainly practiced assaults during combat team attacks with infantry stacked up behind me and sometimes there was even somebody on the tank telephone. As...

Infantry are generalists. Both the offence and defence have support plans, and those support plans are not concocted in isolation of the manoeuvre plan. The CO is responsible for the plan. The various support platoon commanders (when the Bns have them...) are indeed responsible for the details...

In the army on courses a failed "trace" or leadership activity is sometimes referred to colloquially as a "Freddy." So if you fail a trace (a section attack for example) then you might say to your friends afterwards "I Freddied that one really bad." You get warnings for each failed activity...

What is an "offensively-minded Major" as opposed to a "defensively-minded Major?" Is this something that would be found on their MPRR? I have found that some leaders may have a prediction towards deliberate planning/methodical conduct while others may prefer to improvise. Some may be comfortable...

I am not an infantryman, but I see that much of the last two or three pages has been on Collective Training. I offer the following from our Training doctrine (BGL-300-008 Training Canada's Army) and relevant amplifying CAO 23-21 Foundation Training. These need to be used in conjunction with...

"More deployable" is an interesting concept. How do you think our vehicles got to Afghanistan? The Leopard C2 actually had fantastic FCS including a very up to date thermal sight. Regarding your question, in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. Anything with a gun capable of...

The work to bring the current Leo2A4Ms to that standard to replace the A6Ms in Kandahar had to be done in Germany due to the required specialized machinery. Our A6Ms are undergoing R&O and there is a Leopard maintenance facility going into Edmonton. These efforts should improve serviceability.

If someone is in one of our three Armoured Regiments then they will be deploying to Latvia at least once every three years. They are going to be plenty busy. There is more than the Leopard 2 capability. Speaking of which, we will have world-class tanks in a meaningful mission for which they were...

I am a little skeptical of claims that Canadian ARes guys who trained on Cougars "dropped into M1s" after a day on simulators. I was ARes Armour in the 90s, and while we did go to Fort Knox to use their M1 simulators that is a far cry from just getting onto M1s. in the field. That is how you...

As an aside, the Government Accountability Office report on Army combat systems after the 1991 Gulf War noted that the M1 was a great tank but had limited range (in terms of movement, not gunnery) due to high fuel consumption. They noted that the tanks were idling close to 70% of the time to...

Yep - the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) allows the tank's systems to be powered without having to run the engine. Still uses fuel, but not to the same magnitude as the turbine.

The NES situation is very different today than it was in the early 90s. I started the training year in 1991 with four of twelve soldiers in my Troop Book on NES, and the unit was indeed carrying a large number of chronic NES. By 1995 this had changed as we had the administrative tools to clear...

TBGs have been around for about a decade. They have a DOMOPs focus. They conduct TBG training each year and they have been successfully used on DOMOPs (the hurricane on the East Coast in Sep 21 for example). I haven't worked with all of them, but I consider them a success. These are different...