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Old 15th Jun 2005, 20:57
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JessTheDog
 
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Call me paranoid, but to have 47% of the Army committed as a minority partner in a coalition operation against a low-threat opponent with no simultaneous major committments is bloody scary!

Please correct me if I am wrong, but do the Army not still operate under the "field army" and "home army" concept? I vaguely recall that the field army has 1-2 divisions of perhaps 3 brigades each. A brigade is typically 5,000 troops so the "field army" is perhaps 30,000 strong. This would be just under 30% of the strength of the Army or thereabouts.
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