RE: [HIST??] Culture shock

At 11:27 PM +1000 6/22/02, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:
>Actually this brings to mind a question I've been meaning to ask JohnA
for a
>while....
>
>John, you're "stereotyped" TO&Es, do they actually govern how you take
on a
>force and thus have to play catch up if they're not like you expected
>(thinking of my Grandpa's recount of the first time he saw a 6ft+
Japanese
>guardsman in WWII after being told they were all 4 ft with glasses by
Aussie
>propaganda guys....)
>

Well, the nice thing is that many of the countries that the US was 
expecting to fight would have Soviet organization. How ever, most of 
what he's been discussing is friendly side TO&E and the things that 
the US learned over the past 80 years fighting modern wars and trying 
to increase flexibility and effectiveness. The arrangement of fire 
teams and platoons, the arrangement of the support and command 
elements at company, battalion and brigade level (all the way up to 
corps level), the disposition of specialist units like engineers and 
artillery, all of this has to do with lots of thought and testing by 
people in the US services. Additionally, much of it parallels British 
service to a larger or lesser degree. Especially when you get to 
smaller units and command structures or liason elements.
-- 
--
Ryan Gill		  rmgill@mindspring.com
	 |	  |
	 | O--=-  |		|	    |
	 |_/|o|_\_|		| _________ |
	 / 00DA61 \		|/---------\|
      _w/^=_[__]_= \w_		// [_]	o[]\\
     |: O(4) ==    O :|        _Oo\=======/_O_
     |---\________/---|        [__O_______W__] 
      |~|\	  /|~|	       |~|/BSV 575\|~|
      |~|=\______/=|~|	       |~|=|_____|=|~|
      |~|	   |~|	       |~|	   |~|