Originally Posted by
tucumseh
In 2001, the (UK) Defence Scientific Advisory Council (DSAC), who report to the Secy of State, said in a draft report, discussing what the Infantry would look like in 2020...
A difficult subject, but the DSAC made it clear that pinning it solely on the young infantryman was not the way. (Which makes it an appropriate subject for a military aviation forum).
Very interesting. Perhaps a contrast with the expected norms of Wellington’s army (and something to which he paid close attention in the Peninsula for all the same reasons we have discussed it - albeit with regard to the local population rather than the French). A very curious thing to include in the context of a modern report, given that such things had been officially frowned upon for at least a century by then.