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T_igger_cs_30 · 01-23-2007, 03:33 AM

Zraver,
good comment,s and even fairer point's.

The question "would I ride a.... into battle " is a mute point" as I or anyone of us would ride into battle with whatever we are equiped with at the time of deployment as we always have.
We can counter all day with historical example's and modern day statistic's, but I think that those example's have been well covered by most posters on this thread.
The day of one element of any fighting force winning the war, I think we can all agree is long gone, if it indeed it ever truly existed.So we constantly search for the right mix, the right balance to achieve our aims.
all of us that served 20 or more years in our relevant branches of the military have at some point seen "the wheel being reinvented" sometimes effectively sometimes not.
We do not like it but the economic factor of maintaining an effective fighting force is always going to be with us now,It has been a long time since"the spoils of war" have covered this cost, therefore finding the right "mix" or "balance" is more imortant than ever.
"All Arms intergration" is more important now than ever before, and therefore thats why we will see a re growth in the use of medium armour (MA) within our fighting forces.

01-23-2007, 03:33 AM	#22 (permalink)
T_igger_cs_30 *Military Professional* Join Date: 01-04-07 Location: Canada Posts: 2,093 Country:	Zraver, good comment,s and even fairer point's. The question "would I ride a.... into battle " is a mute point" as I or anyone of us would ride into battle with whatever we are equiped with at the time of deployment as we always have. We can counter all day with historical example's and modern day statistic's, but I think that those example's have been well covered by most posters on this thread. The day of one element of any fighting force winning the war, I think we can all agree is long gone, if it indeed it ever truly existed.So we constantly search for the right mix, the right balance to achieve our aims. all of us that served 20 or more years in our relevant branches of the military have at some point seen "the wheel being reinvented" sometimes effectively sometimes not. We do not like it but the economic factor of maintaining an effective fighting force is always going to be with us now,It has been a long time since"the spoils of war" have covered this cost, therefore finding the right "mix" or "balance" is more imortant than ever. "All Arms intergration" is more important now than ever before, and therefore thats why we will see a re growth in the use of medium armour (MA) within our fighting forces. __________________ $<img src=http://C:\Documents and Settings\Wayne Smith\My Documents\002...My Pictures border=0 alt= />$ FEAR NAUGHT I don't work here ...I am an analyst!