The Istar company was discussed at lenght in An Cosantoir in September 2012, detailing sub units and the vehicles attached to them.
What most of the debate misses is that the Cavalry squadrons are essentially a training units for the deployment of subunits overseas, and the vehicle pool reflects this. The only overseas deployments that exist for Cav are the Cavalry troop for the Recce Company of the infantry battalion ala Chad and Lebanon Mk 3 and the Istar Company ala Nordic and Deutch battalegroup.
Trying to shoo horn our vehicle requrements into the british doctrine misses the post that (A) we are unlikely to ever deploy a brigade in the field, ((B) that it ignores the way other states such as germany and in particlular france and the US carry out reconnaissance, and are now more influential than British thinking on the matter. What people arte doing is trying to make the british formation reconnaissance squadron as a model without realising that the squadron is designed for reconnaissance in front of an armoured brigade.
The Americans very kindly publish most of their field manuals online, (just google them) but if you read them you'll see that doctrine in ISTAR Company and the reconnaissiance element of the PSO infantry battalion is now closer to the US army stryker battalions, and the French Concept of GTIA is now more influential for overseas than british doctrine.
What most of the debate misses is that the Cavalry squadrons are essentially a training units for the deployment of subunits overseas, and the vehicle pool reflects this. The only overseas deployments that exist for Cav are the Cavalry troop for the Recce Company of the infantry battalion ala Chad and Lebanon Mk 3 and the Istar Company ala Nordic and Deutch battalegroup.
Trying to shoo horn our vehicle requrements into the british doctrine misses the post that (A) we are unlikely to ever deploy a brigade in the field, ((B) that it ignores the way other states such as germany and in particlular france and the US carry out reconnaissance, and are now more influential than British thinking on the matter. What people arte doing is trying to make the british formation reconnaissance squadron as a model without realising that the squadron is designed for reconnaissance in front of an armoured brigade.
The Americans very kindly publish most of their field manuals online, (just google them) but if you read them you'll see that doctrine in ISTAR Company and the reconnaissiance element of the PSO infantry battalion is now closer to the US army stryker battalions, and the French Concept of GTIA is now more influential for overseas than british doctrine.
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