New manuals on the website
Got some new mugs in the Battle Order shop if that's your thing: https://battleorder.myshopify.com/collections...
2023-08-23 19:40:56 +0000 UTC View Post
New video on the U.S. Army's Air Cavalry Combat Brigade when it was formed, its doctrinal role as a mobile anti-armor force, organization at the time of its creation down to the company-level, and ...
2023-08-18 15:48:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I've ordered a U.S. Army manual for a video, FM 17-47 "Air Cavalry Combat Brigade" (1977). When it comes (maybe in October) I'll try to photocopy and publicly provide it as a pdf
2023-08-15 04:59:37 +0000 UTC View Post
New video on the evolution of U.S. Army Air Cavalry from the early 1960s to today. The air cavalry talked about are attack/recon helicopter formations that conduct reconnaissance and security for m...
2023-08-13 18:13:45 +0000 UTC View Post
New graphics on:
1. Attack Company (AH-64 Apache), current
2. Air Cavalry Troop (AH-64 Apache/RQ-7BV2 Shadow), current
3. Heavy Watercraft Platoon (LCU-2000/Runnymede-class), curr...
2023-07-29 00:09:50 +0000 UTC View Post
New graphic depicting the U.S. Army's LRS Company before their deactivation in the mid/late-2010s. Their main jobs were surveillance, zone and area reconnaissance, target acquisition, and target in...
2023-07-22 18:57:06 +0000 UTC View Post
New video on the U.S. Army's MQ-1C Gray Eagle, a high endurance drone used for recon, surveillance, strike, communications relaying, and SIGINT/EW. Video include tactics, strengths, limitations and...
2023-07-18 16:49:11 +0000 UTC View PostNew short on what types of Soviet units employed British/Canadian Universal Carriers.
2023-07-07 06:32:17 +0000 UTC View Post
New short looking at U.S. Paramarine Rifle Squads and armaments in early 1943
Side note, there are full videos coming. Just doing some shorts back-to-back to get them out there
2023-07-05 05:19:08 +0000 UTC View Post
New short on the Australian Army's infantry section organization and weapons
2023-07-04 03:36:34 +0000 UTC View Post
New short on why US Marine infantry didn't have the M1 Garand during the Battle of Guadalcanal (it was their own fault)
2023-07-03 01:36:49 +0000 UTC View Post
New video that just gives a brief overview of the U.S. Army's main logistics units. This is meant to familiarize you with some key terms, unit names, acronyms, and their basic composition in prepar...
2023-06-30 11:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone. I am pausing billing for 1 month due to the lack of content, other than the interview with Stuart Lyle, that came out in June. Production slowed down because I was dedicating a lot of ...
2023-06-26 03:30:50 +0000 UTC View Post
New 1-hour interview I did with Stuart Lyle, the Urban Operations Lead at Britain's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. He designed an experimental section, platoon and company structure opt...
2023-06-11 17:23:35 +0000 UTC View Post
New video on the organization of Israeli armor units from the platoon to brigade level, based on conversations I've had with Israeli tankers. There is also a segment on how to identify a tank's uni...
2023-05-29 10:48:32 +0000 UTC View PostWork-in-progress animation on Israeli tank units. Full video will come out on 30 May
2023-05-27 11:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post
New video on the "Raid of the 95th Brigade", where a combined force of Ukrainian paratroopers and mechanized forces conducted a long-range armored raid through rebel-held territory to free thousand...
2023-05-18 00:37:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, I've been taking some time to update my website. There are some new things and a new-ish l...
2023-05-01 00:25:35 +0000 UTC View Post
New video on South Vietnam's (ARVN) Armored Cavalry during the Vietnam War, with a focus on their M113 ACAV units that employed modified M113 APCs like tank tanks. The American 11th ACR did somethi...
2023-04-30 08:49:12 +0000 UTC View PostI wrote two relatively in-depth articles on the French Army in the Cold War.
https://www.battleorder.org/post/__ebr<...
2023-04-20 08:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.battleorder.org/post/usa-30s-refdata
I've uploaded complete Tables of Organization for US...
https://www.battleorder.org/post/waypoint-divisions I've made a big update to the article on the U.S. Arm...
2023-04-07 18:33:15 +0000 UTC View Post
In prep for a video, did some graphics of the ARVN Armored Cavalry Squadron variant with M113s and M41 Walker Bulldogs. They're the same graphic, but the second is in the Vietnamese, because the ta...
2023-04-05 12:46:26 +0000 UTC View Post
New video on Russia's Assault Detachments (task organized units for assaulting trenches and city blocks), their tactics against linear defenses in the open, and historical context
2023-04-02 17:11:28 +0000 UTC View Post
New graphic of the current TRADOC proposal Armor Division (Reinforced), which was originally the Pen etration Division back when Army 2030 was Waypoint 2028. [Also just added the regular Armor Divi...
2023-03-26 15:37:29 +0000 UTC View Post
New mini-episode looking at different approaches to command and control in armored/mechanized infantry platoons (like who controls vehicles, who controls dismounts, major leadership positions) for ...
2023-03-25 06:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Got the opportunity to talk with some soldiers from different countries (making graphics is good advertising) and put together some more graphics:
1. Israeli Tank Company (Merkava Mk.4) in ac...
2023-03-18 01:07:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Did a Belgian graphic as research for an upcoming video, and decided to do British and Swedish ones with info I already had on hand. These are:
- British Army Armoured Infantry Platoon, FV510...
2023-03-14 02:41:25 +0000 UTC View Post