The Army wants a Bradley replacement big enough to hold a 9-man squad, which is now considered the minimum squad size needed. The Bradley forced mechanized infantry to split squads into two vehicles and the Army doesn't like that. Do we really need mechanized infantry squads to be that large for mobile warfare?
One method to reduce the squad in the vehicle is to have virtual gunners manning remote weapon stations on the vehicle. See "Reachback for the Squad" in Infantry magazine.
NOTE: I used this post as inspiration for the article and so deleted it. This article published in 2017 replaces the post.
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- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
