History, Politics And Current Affairs

You may need to rework that question in order for it to be answerable, M. Eaglenine. The issue with the TA increases isn’t the cost, although that all adds up, but the sheer scale of increase - 11 tank, 14 artillery, 20 infantry and 20 HSF battalions. All of that for an arm of service which might n...

Simon, I see what you’re saying, two Bns (my aforementioned 1 Cameronians and 1 Y&L) are doable but that’s up to Bernard. The easiest move would be additional Gurkhas. I programmed in 57 Bns as I can use them in the FEBA as Mech Bns with 24 ATGWs. One to the Water Sandwich in 1AD’s TAOR (refurbi...

The TA is a whole different animal which I will get into tonight. Basically the TA man for man was a whole lot cheaper than the regular army, additionally IRL the TA ORBAT Review suggested a new category of TA, Limited Liability TA. This would be a reduced drill commitment because you had certain sp...

Read Top to bottom, left to right
Mech Inf Tracked
AMF Bn
Type B Bn
Mech Inf Wheeled
IDB
Armoured Inf Bn
Airmobile Inf Bn
Berlin Bn
These are numbers for cap-badge personnel only, no RAMC, REME, etc attachments

They wanted the fourth Rifle Coy to be in situ in FRG. BAOR planned on 48 hour warning time (worst case) and a 10 day warning time (best case). There was also a worry that recalled Reservists needed at least a 7 day Training After Mobilization period. BAOR could not depend on reservists getting acro...

This is from Jan 1989, shortfalls in manpower for BAOR

Simon, I will post tonight but personal issues were dire in 1989/90. The MARILYN Report - Manning And Recruiting IN the Lean Years of the Nineties The report saw a demographic trough developing in the ‘90’s, less young people to join the forces, in particular the Army. The report forecast the trend ...

Just as a reminder, the Royal Navy and RAF also grew in TLWverse. Just keep that in mind when theorizing how much you can grow non-Gurkha infantry on top of the additional armor and artillery units in TLWverse in peacetime without conscription. James, Thank you! I was going to add that the cuts of ...

Simon, I will post the cap-badge numbers(minus any attachments from RAMC, RAPC, ACC, etc) for each Bn and their role from 1989. To get to the 57 Bns I have extra Gurkha Bns Three with 48 Gurkha Inf Bde One with 5 Abn Bde One in Brunei One in the ITO (IDB at Warminster with Coys at Brecon & Sandh...

Simon, I do see your point but based on IRL, before anymore Regular Army Inf Bns would be formed I think the first priority would be to get all the current (50 British) Bns up to at least Peace Establishment. Second would be to form fourth rifle Coys along with re-establishing Assault Pioneer Pls in...

Further food for thought….. If we were to add additional British Inf My best guess is the following 1 Cameronians, the Scottish Div as a whole was the best recruited in 1989 1 York & Lancaster, King’s Div was the next best recruited 3 Grenadier Guards, Inkerman Coy was still extant to represent ...

Simon, Where do I start? I have been working with Bernard on revamping the British Army ORBAT, we have been trying to reconcile some things and do some best “guesses” What I mean is, as I get more files from the 1980’s early 90’s it seems things that we thought were going to happen before IRL Wall F...

Principal WMR/WRS Equipments/Natures Army as at 1 June 1990 M109 155mm Howitzer = NATO SPG- 5, National-81, shortfall of 72 National MBT = NATO SPG- 252, National-277, NATO shortfall 80/National 105 RAPIER towed/tracked = NATO SPG- 41, National-84, shortfall of 43 National DN181 Tracker = NATO SPG-...

Bernard, check your email

IRL I believe Canada only stocked equipment for an additional Armd Sqn, 2xMech Coys and an Arty Bty. If anything else was to be stocked I don’t believe it would have been done until the early 90’s. Canada didn’t have enough Leo 1’s for two full Armd Regts, if the 200 to 250 tanks they were looking a...

The plan before Wall Fall was for The Fort Garry Horse to come back into the Regular Force as the Armd Recce Regt for 1st Can Div (equipped with Leo 1s and what would become Coyote). The title was picked because its title did not indicate any specific area or Province, there would still be a Fort Ga...

Principal WMR/WRS Equipments/Natures Royal Air Force as at 1 June 1990 SRAAM = 4,413 (NATO SPG 4,438, shortfall 1 %) MRAAM = 2,242 SKYFLASH, 383 SPARROW (NATO SPG 2,241) 27mm HEI/APHE = Full stock of 30+ days (NATO SPG 574,320) JP233 = Full stock of 30+ days (NATO SPG 1,370) Sonobuoys = JEZEBEL- 36,...

Principal WMR/WRS Equipments/Natures Royal Navy as at 1 June 1990 VLSW = T23 -59 (each ship) AOR -38 (each ship) shortfall of 15% 4.5in Gun NGS Pool = 15,600 (100%) AMRAAM = 12.75 per aircraft (30% shortfall) GOALKEEPER = T22 each ship 12,000, CVS each ship 13,500 (21 days of combat, 5% shortfall) P...