@ChampagneCdo @Stu_Lyle @16AirAssltBCT @RCRBuck @SebastianBae Stu, if your team would like to come down to 16X, we'd be more than happy to give it a whirl!
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Shaun_urbanwardev
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Shaun_urbanwardev
@Urbanwardev
Soldier and urban warfare enthusiast
Katılım Mart 2019
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@Stu_Lyle @Urbanwardev @16AirAssltBCT @RCRBuck @SebastianBae Appreciate the level of detail in that! Now to wargame 47 (RM) Cdo at Port-en-Bessin … 🥂
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For a touch of fun in the wind down to Christmas, a few of our wargaming ninjas ran a Pegasus Bridge wargame with some incredible minis.
I've had the pleasure of visiting the actual site several times now, but this was the first time I've been in a wargame of it.
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This is all very well. And everyone wants a better trained, equipped, professional army - like the special forces- but how do you hold and even
more take an urban objective without heavy expensive equipment like tanks, IVFs, artillery etc?
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@Stu_Lyle If you're on 3000 exactly, I'm going to unfollow just to ruin your day.
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Big thanks to all of the 3K people (inc. the bots) who are following me!
It's all about quality over quantity, of course, but still nice to know there is interest in my ramblings about urban operations & wargaming.
Thanks for all the engagement & the sense of community 🤜💥🤛
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@SpencerGuard John, you're a disgrace! Nature?!? Practice what you preach and only holiday in super cities from now on. Urban isn't just the future of warfare!! 🤣
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@Urbanwardev Keep the faith my friend. #ThoughtsandPrayers
But more importantly, what’s your favourite biscuit? 🍪
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My biscuit tin has stopped keeping them fresh. It has done me well but as I now have to buy the 2nd one in my lifetime, I presume that I'm going to die imminently as I have nothing else to look forward to.
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@SapperGeologist Chocolate hob nob. Or jaffa cake. I can't split the two.
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@Stu_Lyle @VincentZephyr At £30 for the book, it might be cheaper for us to club together and just do a live experiment!
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@VincentZephyr It's true.
The challenges of employing arty in close support of combat units means that it is (generally) used more discriminately.
Any case studies need to be compared to similar sized ops in non-urban. That's where a lot of the confusion comes from.
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@Banzaitankboy @crispypalmer33 @david_stillwell Following that same logic, maybe an individual should earn a wage commensurate to their level? If everybody is paid more equally agnostic of their role, why would anybody want the high pressure or difficult roles? This isn't just management but also more unpleasant physical ones.
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Possibly everyone else already knew this, but I just worked out tax paid by someone earning £30k (£4,878) vs. tax paid by someone earning £125k (£46,939). So salary is about 4 times higher but tax is almost 10 times higher. Really shows how much we rely on these higher earners.
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@RobMalcolm7 @ChasAHKnight @Zarelepotec @antbruceking Couldn't agree more with Rob. We need trg areas that encourage breaching away from doorways, room entry with distraction grenades and a recognition that SF tactics for conventional forces are sound but only once we've made the initial breach.
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@ChasAHKnight @Zarelepotec @antbruceking Part of the reason is our urban warfare training facilities don’t allow us to do much else. We habituate ourselves to bad tactics because they are the simplest thing to get repetitions at.
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#UrbanWarfare skills need training and constant honing…
BiffBifford™ 🇺🇸@TBifford
Okay, so what is the proper way to make an entry? 🫢🤔😨😱 🔉
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@Stu_Lyle A bit like my presentations! Students give up as soon as I start speaking...
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@Urbanwardev The US used 155 direct fire to great effect during the battle of Aachen. When a strong point was identified the 155 was brought forward. Even the sight of it was enough to make most positions surrender.
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@FennellJW @thinkdefence This is an absolute pig. A drone that carries individual casualties ignores c-UAS, the force protection required, the increased vulnerability to small arms and the lack of capacity. If it's part of a range of caps, potentially, but not as the silver bullet.
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We have trialled these to death, they are British, we have donated lots to Ukraine, and are in service with the USMC and Royal Marines. When is the British Army going to place a large production order?
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@thinkdefence @EasiBridge There's a requirement for movt like that when the terrain below is impassable. There's however a greater requirement for a ladder that can do vertical and horizontal and be broken down into smaller sections to enable movt on multiple axes/entry points. Helix offer good choice.
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A soldier from 2 Royal York’s makes their way into a building using a new ladder slide during an urban warfare scenario on the Army Warfare Experiment Exercise Blunting Strike.
@EasiBridge
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@thinkdefence There's already the 'steed' in use with 82ndAB and trialled here in the UK. I'm not a fan and in its current CONEMP, creates a dependency that affects tactical manoeuvre. Terrible in the urban as well!
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Infantry hand carts will come back in fashion one day!
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@CBRNEsteve @MilitaryBanter Completely switched off; Not marching between buildings in training while eating a sausage roll which led to being chewed out by a CSM who then discovered that I hadn't shaved that morning. Not a great day and led to a valentines day night in Slough as I had a show parade at 2200
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@ThreshedThought To increase recruitment:
1. Show the military to be a stable size. If we show as reducing, we give a perception of being in decline.
2. Simplify the recruitment msg. Show cool, simple videos to emphasise the collective, not the differences.
3. Mil SNCOs in recruiting offices.
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This is absolutely right. An army of 100k is the starting point for the kind of world that we are living in 👏👏👏
Tim Farron@timfarron
If we are serious about standing shoulder to shoulder with our allies in NATO, and backing the brave men and women who defend our country, then we must reverse the cuts to the UK's armed forces.
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@Stu_Lyle @thinkdefence For light forces, tethered masts aren't great. Roller masts that fit in a single pouch are an example of meeting the requirement without the weight or cost of a high tech option. This is only for comms masts but tethered drones sound good on paper but are very.heavy.
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@thinkdefence I'm less fussed which one we get, I just want something for BLOS observation.
Tethered UAS are slightly more flexible IMHO, but anything is better than nothing.
That being said, Ajax is tall enough to be it's own mast! 😏
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Elevating masts were all the rage once, now they are so last war it seems, and everyone is all tethered and untethered drones
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@ChasAHKnight @ResearchRonin The psychological suitability angle is interesting because it adds to what @SapperGeologist says above. Along with height, lack of equipment and a hideous threat picture in a channelled environment, it's about generally denying it to the enemy, not using it.
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@ResearchRonin This gets into interesting assessment & selection territory. I can remember WW2 SAS veterans, including a neighbour who fought in Italy, variously pointing out that the types of people who made great unconventional soldiers would not survive in peace time armies (or pass psych).
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Urbanistas. Jayson has a great long post below. I did a bit of SubT in caves and subsequently trained soldiers in UK mine complexes (1980s). What do others think about (again) selecting, training (& equipping, eg, moderated .22") soldiers psychologically capable of working alone?
Jayson Geroux@JaysonGeroux
1/2 Short🧵with very long, complex🧵attached. I am presently rewriting the Canadian Armed Forces' doctrinal urban operations publication & am currently researching & writing the subterranean ("SubT" or "SbT") section. With thanks to @dewszt for this post below.
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@Stu_Lyle @jesusfroman Not that intense to be fair! @ResearchRonin makes a great point with the Shanghai acrobats. Not about the choreography but instead the core skills that underpin the ability to operate in that environment. Marksmanship, manoeuvre and coordination far more important than gymnastics
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