tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post6215394969562125947..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: If we were really focused on free mobile warfare ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-27954465354276099412014-04-27T14:46:16.757+02:002014-04-27T14:46:16.757+02:00Nothing of it is very expensive.
(1) is a question...Nothing of it is very expensive.<br />(1) is a question of design. The alerter radar used in Afghanistan is almost portable, leagues lower than a Cobra in terms of price.<br />(2) is a question of design and of ordinary 8x8 trucks.<br />(3) is about changing the balance between recce and LOS combat troops.<br />(4) is about doctrine and a higher infantry share.<br />(5) is (3) plus doctrine adjustment and reorganization.<br />(6) is about training and doctrine.<br />(7) actually allows for cheaper hardware.<br />(8) is about cheap steel, cheap glass and some by now also cheap spall liners.<br /><br />What's expensive is AirLand Battle's the concept of attacking ground forces with fires (instead of manoeuvre) over long distances en masse and its RMA/NCW descendants.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-5168160032807937382014-04-27T14:04:59.183+02:002014-04-27T14:04:59.183+02:00All of this sounds ruinously expensive. Like that...All of this sounds ruinously expensive. Like that joke from the 80s about how at the current rate of progress (every new generation of fighter aircraft being much more expensive than the last), the USAF will have only 3 fighters in 2050...<br /><br />Assuming modern military bureaucracy and procurement methods, the US Army will only be able to field one such modern brigade, if that. The rest of the world - none.So?noreply@blogger.com