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Did you know... that the Soviet Army during the early Cold War had a smaller number of military personnel per division than the US Army, partly because it used civilian labourers and anti-aircraft gunners?
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... that in 1977 the division slice of each US Army mechanized division was 48,000 men compared to 17,000 in the Soviet Army? "Thus, the "division slice" -the division, itself plus a proportional share of nondivisional troops and administrative overheads-is 17,000 for Soviet mechanized divisions vis-à-vis 48,000 or more for a comparable U.S. divisions" from: Norton, Augustus R. (1977).
"NATO and Metaphors: The Nuclear Threshold". Naval War College Review. 30 (2): 67.
ISSN0028-1484.
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
Other problems: - ALT1 has a problem, this is cited to one 1950 source. Although it may be true throughout the existence of the Soviet Army, it would need either a better source or else specification of time period. ALT0 appears to be correct, but is not very interesting.
ALT2:... that the Soviet Army of the early Cold War had a smaller number of military personnel per division, than the US Army partly because it used civilian labourers and anti-aircraft gunners?
ALT2 approved, for ALT3 the article does not use the term "World War III" so that would need to be supported. (It is not synonymous with a conflict between Soviet Union and NATO) (
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c) buidhe04:42, 3 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Thanks
Buidhe, I've struck ALT3 - I was trying to find a succinct way of "potential war with NATO" but you're right, it isn't the same thing. Happy for ALT2 to run -
Dumelow (
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05:36, 3 August 2020 (UTC)reply
For those of us who actually served in the US Army, we used the term "division slice" to describe the parts of a division that a Brigade received from task organization.
For example, a brigade has it's three maneuver battalions, and then receives a "slice" of the division's air defense battalion, or engineer battalion, or CEWI battalion, etc. The "slice" was that platoon or company cut out to go work with the maneuver brigade.
I can't speak to the sources from in the article, but what I mentioned above is what is taught in the US Army's service schools ...