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The British and Indian Armies do not assign "General" to the Brigadier rank. The Canadian and Australian armies do.
In modern times, there is no real layman difference between regiment and brigade but a hell of alot of difference in real military terms.
To give some historic background,
A Regiment was two or more battalions. In the old days, the 1st Battalion is the field Battalion while the 2nd Battalion was just a numbered home battalion designed to push lost bodies into the 1st Battalion when losses occurred.
A Brigade was an ad-hoc formation in the field of various battalions.
However, some countries (Russia in particular) forgoe the 2nd home battalion and fielded 2 (or more) field battalions in the same regiment.
In mordern days, there is very little difference between regiment and brigade in terms of TOE BUT a BIG difference in command style. A regiment has a more regid command as all the battalions (inf, armour, guns, engineers) are part of the regiment instead of clobbled together from various combat arms. A regiment knows each and everybody's job.
A brigade has a loser command in that the brigade staff may not know the exact jobs of the battlions under its command and thus rely on the battalion commands to get the proper commands issued.
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Chimo
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