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Yuri Butusov: Organization of a Ukrainian infantry brigade - what would the optimal model look like according to the experience of the war
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Yuri Butusov is a Ukrainian journalist and owner of the Ukrainian internet news outlet censor.net
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Modern infantry warfare, mass mobilization, and enemy advantage in combat requires structural changes so that troops can optimize our quality advantages and systemic problems of the enemy.

Our advantages:
1. More higher military intelligence and motivation.
2. Quality advantage of the Ukrainian infantry.
3. Numerical advantage in the personal warehouse.
4. Means of communication, primarily Starlink.
5. Automated military and fire management systems.
6. Quantitative and qualitative advantage in the means of optical intelligence, the number of sensors on the battlefield.
7. Logistics and supplies.

It is necessary to concentrate troops around personnel headquarters, strengthen personnel troops, saturate personnel troops with quality personnel, and empower brigade commanders to make broad horizontal shifts regarding training and promotion s sergeants and junior officers, the possibility of their testing in various horizontal positions.

Need to increase the capacity of units to act independently and autonomous - this requires strengthening of staff, logistics, intelligence and engineering support in every single battalion and company.

Most importantly, we need not increase officers and admin lines that are ineffective due to lack of coordinated and trained troops, we need increase sergeants, juniors, arms operators in the key chain the section of the mouth. States should be filled from the bottom, not from the top. The vitality and efficiency of personnel teams is an absolute priority before the deployment of new connections.

It's time to change states and doctrine.
Therefore the optimal organization of the brigade (you can call it differently, say, infantry) see so:

1. Three or four mechanized battalions. That is, "heavy" infantry battalions that are armed with armored equipment, mortars, heavy machine guns, operate from this equipment, and have armor to protect the servicemen. They hold the borders, impacting enemy troops on the front lines.

2. One or two assault battalions. Lightweight infantry. Perform reconnaissance, assault tasks, there is a mobile reserve for rapid reinforcement in any direction. The light infantry has weapons that they carry on themselves and unarmored vehicles. It's also machine guns, mortars, ptrk.

3. Reconnaissance battalion. Technical intelligence battalion, this is our advantage that needs to be increased. We won't be able to have the same amount of combat equipment, but we can have an advantage in reconnaissance and fire control. Optical cameras, drones, radio-electronic reconnaissance, radio-electronics fighting, radio-location stations. All this has to be coordinated with the analytical unit, the coordination of space intelligence data.

4. Battalion of Engineers. Troop resilience is ensured by the presence of protective structures and camouflage and constant equipment of the line, infantry must enter equipped positions, or receive equipment support quickly. It takes technique, manpower, materials, and constant burying and creation of boundaries, positions, paths to continually increase the viability of the connection. The Engineering Battalion also performs infantry tasks for the second line, meaning there can be service for fighters who, due to health, age and training, cannot be allowed to stay on the front for a long time.

5. Battalion of Tanks. The main operational unit of the tank troops should become a tank company, according to the staff structure of the NATO armies - the United States and the FRN, in a warehouse of 14 tanks. The tank battalion should be organized with its own security, intelligence and sappers to be able to act independently. Tank units should be provided with backup crews to be able to work intensively and have personnel trained. How many such mouths in the battalion - depends on the number of technology, it is not the number, but the full authenticity. Courage should ensure the presence of units for repair and security.

6. Brigade artillery group, division or artillery battalion (as organized in NATO). All 105 - 155 mm artillery units. The primary operational unit of the artillery should be individual batteries that have support and provision for autonomous actions. the presence of divisions is not needed, NATO armies work with batteries, it's time for us to switch to the same states - batteries with 6-8 guns.

You should also prepare backup calculations in this artillery unit.

7. The Uchb Battalion. The battalion in charge of the recruits' combat training, rear guard, bases. For law and order in the area of responsibility. For the training of the sergeants. For the completeness of combat units. And this is an additional battalion headquarters, which also periodically rotates to the front, meaning we provide experience exchange and high combat capabilities. The training battalion should have both permanent and alternating composition, where soldiers coming from the front are transferred for training, vacation, conducts all administrative accounting regarding the military who are temporarily removed from the performance nnya combat tasks for the composition of their regular units. Here comes the curfew.

8. Battalion of combat support. Integrated supplies, food, transportation, repair, logistics, materials, equipment, all of these significantly increase the military capacity, quality logistics yields significant results.

9. The anti-aircraft missile division.

10. Anti Tank Division. Long-range anti-tank missile complexes should be used concentrated, maneuverable on the entire front.

11. Medical company. Of special importance is the saturation of troops on the front crews who ensure the "golden hour" of evacuation. This boosts the fighting spree a lot.

12. The hub of communication and automation control. One of the key units that provide network-centered warfare technology. There should be more mouth by number and positions.

13. HQ.

In my opinion, such a structure will allow to significantly improve all aspects of combat applications. Yes, the number of the brigade will increase to the size of the division - about 10-12,000 fighters. But people we have and people are our primary resource, and our task is to give them maximum professional management, organization, application to conduct proper selection to each unit, quickly transfer people to the positions they are capable of noses and inclination, cooking, educating. We no longer have a professional army - but a mass mobilized army, and we have to consider new challenges.

Of course, this also requires other key decisions - cutting the TRO brigades and self-rising units, including TRO troops on the front on a permanent basis in the personnel brigades of the Armed Forces.

Army reform should be based on quality use of people and resources because these are the factors that ensure victory in a long-term full-scale war against a very strong adversary.


Posted by: badanov 2022-08-10
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