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Video: Thai Cavalry Platoons are Peak Cold War

New video on the organization, weaponry and vehicles of Thai Reconnaissance Cavalry Companies and Platoons. Towards the end it goes into doctrinal options for task organization and some examples of...

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Video: Guide to Russia’s 2S9 Nona-S Airborne Artillery

New video covering the development history, specifications, and unit organization of the 2S9 Nona-S Airborne Self-Propelled Gun-Mortar in the USSR, Russia and Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦

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Video: Mass Effect's Marines: The Doctrinal Guide

New video on almost everything to know about humanity's Marines in the Mass Effect franchise. This is my first video to tackle fiction (other than that one April Fool's) and the first to make use o...

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Video: NEW Squads with Anti-Drone Tech for Belgium

New video on planned changes to Belgian Rifle and Support Weapons Platoons in the next few years. They are adopting the French Griffon armored personnel carrier and more French style structure (par...

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Video: Belgium’s GWOT Rifle Squad: FNC, F2000, Dingo 2

New video on Belgium's GWOT era Rifle Squad and Platoon, featuring a mix of F2000s, FN FNCs, Minimis, MAGs, and Accuracy International sniper rifles. The focus is on the Dingo 2 platoon, including ...

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Video: Who Protected U.S. Army Tactical Nukes in Europe?

New video on a unique U.S. Army motorized infantry unit during the Cold War designed specifically to protect Pershing II tactical nuclear missile battalions in Germany

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Video: The REAL Reason USMC Infantry had no M1 Garands in 1942

New video on the US Marine Corps' adoption of the M1 Garand prior to World War II, why most Marine infantry did not have M1s by the Battle of Guadalcanal, and what Marine units did

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Video: What did White U.S. Soldiers think of Mixed Race Units? (WW2)

During the last months of the War in Europe, the U.S. Army gave 11 divisions platoons of Black soldiers. After they interviewed white officers and NCOs in 7 of those divisions across 24 rifle compa...

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Video: France’s New HUNTER-KILLER DRONE Squadron

France's 1st Marine Infantry Regiment (1er RIMa) has converted one of its armored squadrons into a "drones de chasse" or hunter-killer drone squadron. It involves stacks of vertically launching FPV...

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Video: Guide to Dutch Mercedes Gun Truck Squads

New video on two types of platoons in the Royal Netherlands Army that are basically identical:

1. Patrol Platoons of their Air Assault Infantry Battalions, 11 Airmobile Brigade

2. Heavy...

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Lvkv 90: Guide to Sweden’s Armored Anti-Aircraft Gun

New video on Sweden's Lvkv 90 platoons. The Lvkv 90 is a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun variant of the CV90 and they provide close-in, organic air defense to Sweden's mechanized battalions.

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Video: U.S. Army Divisions Re-Arming with HIMARS

New video on recent structure changes to the 25th Infantry Division's Artillery Brigade (DIVARTY), particularly how it seems to be a pilot for adding a HIMARS rocket artillery battalion to light di...

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5 New U.S. Army Company & Battery Organization Graphics

I've done my once-a-quarter graphics-making binge, which is also cacheing research and assets to use in future videos.

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Graphic: U.S. Army Infantry Regiment (Medium Tanks) + Mini-Article on Late-1930s U.S. Tank Force Structure

This is a graphic of the U.S. Army Infantry Regiment (Medium Tanks) in 1939 based on The Nafziger ...

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Sneak Peek: U.S. Armored Brigade Combat Team 2028 Objective TOE

I'm working on a video on some experimentation 3rd Infantry Division is going to be doing with their ABCTs (mainly creating a brigade Multi-Effects Company). However, their experiment has to be zer...

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Video: Easy Company’s Lineage Situation is Kind of Stupid...

New video explaining the mess that is U.S. Army unit lineages and unit designation practices. I use Easy Company, 506th PIR as a convenient and famous vehicle to talk about it, but also cover some ...

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Annotated Graphic of an Armored Regiment for Case Studies Video

I'm currently actively working on a video about decoding U.S. Army unit lineages with Easy Company, 506th PIR as an example. That should be out in a week or less.

In the background though I'm...

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New Sticker Sheet for Sergeant ($10) Tier: 5 Stickers instead of 1

I am replacing the current 4x4" Dark Battle Order sticker available to the Sergeant tier with a Battle Order Task Forces sticker sheet featuring 5 stickers: the Insignias of the 4 Battle Order task...

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Video: Huge Changes to USMC Light Armored Recon (FD2030)

New video that covers the US Marine Corps Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) formations. Specifically:

  • Current doctrinal role and missions

  • Organization and equipment fr...

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Join a Battle Order Task Force (Form)

In connection to yesterday's update, you can now put your name down under one of 4 task forces. Each task force's general theme is listed in the form. These will be used in future content based aro...

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Battle Order Task Forces Idea & June Video Update

See the end of this post for a June video update.

I've had an idea in the back of my head for years that I may start implementing over the next couple of months. I want to make "Buil...

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Sneak Peek: USMC Light Armored Recon Platoon

This is a rough graphic of a US Marine Corps LAR Platoon that I am currently using to fact check with LAR Marines. I find it's often good to make a preliminary graphic like this when getting first ...

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Video: Mexican Marine Arsenal from Squad to Battalion (Pt. 2)

New video on the weaponry, vehicles and organization of the Mexican Marine Infantry Battalion from the squad to battalion-level, as well as how their rank structure works

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Video: How France did a Thunder Run to Arrest a President

New video on the Battle of Abidjan in Ivory Coast (2011), with a focus on the French Army's operations and order of battle. The latter half of the video is about an combined arms raid the French co...

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More Sneak Peeks for Battle of Abidjan Video

I'm still cranking away at the Battle of Abidjan video (basically a French thunder run sort of mission in West Africa). This is the finished animation for part of the intro. As I said in my last po...

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Battle Sound Test: Battle of Abidjan 2011

I'm making a video about a the French/UN action in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on 11 April 2011 and hired some French voiceover guys for parts of it (only one has delivered lines so far). This clip will b...

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New Shorts & Plans for May

Hi everyone. This is an update on what I'm planning for May, but first I've posted some new shorts. I don't really post them here because statistically my short-form and long-form viewer bases are ...

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Video: The Forgotten U.S. Army Dirt Bike Scout Platoons

New video on U.S. Army scout platoon designs in the 1980s that included motorcycles, as well as some tidbits on other applications of motorcycles in conventional units at the time before their demi...

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Video: NEW U.S. Army Robot—Kamikaze Drone Company

New video on the organization and equipment of the new Multipurpose Company the U.S. Army is implementing with its light infantry battalions in replacement of the old Weapons Company. The video mai...

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Video: 100 Year Evolution of the U.S. Army Tank Company

New video on the complete history of U.S. Army Tank Company organization (unreinforced) from the first tank company TO&Es in 1918 to today. There are 14 distinct snapshots included.

Thank...

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