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 tactical situations where those task org options may be applied.
2025-11-15 10:07:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 🇷🇺🇺🇦
2025-10-25 12:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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 of real 3D models, which I might do more of in the future. Even if you aren't familiar with the Mass Effect series, the video makes a lot of real-world comparisons and applies real-world doctrinal term...
2025-10-10 10:13:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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 (particularly with the Support Platoons), but also plan to significantly increase anti-armor and anti-drone capabilities within the rifle squads.
My source tells me he is looking to see if additiona...
2025-09-01 19:12:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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 seating configurations and dismount on contact drills, but the Piranha III version of the squad is also covered
2025-08-29 12:30:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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
2025-08-23 12:19:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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
2025-08-21 00:13:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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 companies. The results were pretty significant.
2025-08-17 07:02:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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 drones, loitering munitions, and fixed wing ISR drones to support the brigade and independent battalion battle groups. It was tested recently in Estonia during Hedgehog 25 against an American mechani...
2025-08-13 00:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Weapons Platoons of their Motorized Armored Infantry Battalions (Boxer), 13 Light Brigade
These platoons are characterized by the use of Mercedes-Benz G280 CDI light tactical vehicles armed wit...
2025-08-08 23:30:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2025-08-04 23:39:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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 divisions
2025-07-31 20:41:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I've done my once-a-quarter graphics-making binge, which is also cacheing research and assets to use in future videos.
U.S. Army Separate Airborne Tank Company (Sept 1944) — During WW2 the U.S. Army experimented with notionally airlandable T9/M22 airborne light tanks (nicknamed Locust by the British) to potentially give the airborne mobile protected firepower. T...
2025-07-18 03:11:29 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a graphic of the U.S. Army Infantry Regiment (Medium Tanks) in 1939 based on The Nafziger Collection's TO&Es. There was only one medium tank regiment at the time, the 67th Infantry Regiment (Medium Tanks). However, for basically the entire interwar this was a small formation.
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 zero growth so they are going to be repurposing existing platoons to make it happen. This is a still from a WIP animation showing the objective TOE for ABCTs in FY28 (not necessarily what all will be by ...
2025-07-10 23:49:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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 other units that are weird. For example, the 7th Infantry Divisions brigades that are designated 1st and 2nd Stryker BCT, 2nd Infantry Division, 7th Infantry Division and signified by 1-2 and 2-2 rath...
2025-07-10 04:22:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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 also preparing to do a video that's basically comparing how multiple countries organize armored brigades/regiments and then synthesizing that to create our own. I haven't decided who will be included...
2025-07-05 21:38:32 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 forces (Expeditionary Regiment, 13th Airmobile, 1st Siege Artillery, and 66th Shock) plus the original Dark Battle Order design (the Sergeant Major patch). It's an A5 sheet, so 5.8 x 8.3 inches. Each...
2025-07-03 18:09:53 +0000 UTC View Post
New video that covers the US Marine Corps Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) formations. Specifically:
Current doctrinal role and missions
Organization and equipment from the team to battalion-level, including company-level task organization options and non-T/O organizational changes made in some battalions due to space constraints on MEUs
The experim...
2025-07-01 02:29:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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 around case studies and synthesizing them into new fictional military organizations. The only practical effect of this form for now is when these task forces are mentioned in a video you will be displaye...
2025-06-18 19:31:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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 "Build Your Unit" series where I do broad case studies of a certain unit type (like a marine brigade or a mechanized infantry squad) from multiple countries, and synthesize those case studies into one fict...
2025-06-18 03:15:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 hand accounts so there is something for them to correct. People being interviewed often also don't mention pretty critical information unless asked directly about it. Like I've been talking to LAR Mar...
2025-06-11 07:09:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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
2025-05-28 17:55:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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 conducted during the battle to enable the arrest of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo
2025-05-19 15:47:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 post I hired a couple of French voice over guys for this video, although in this segment I only used one because it fit the vibe better.
In the attachments there's also a still of the map I'm putt...
2025-04-30 09:43:17 +0000 UTC View PostI'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 be towards the beginning of the video to set the scene.
2025-04-24 08:53:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 entirely different audiences (less than 10% overlap) and you have mostly come from long-form, but if you're interested these are the ones that have come out recently or are scheduled to come out:
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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 demise in the 90s
2025-04-08 11:14:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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 mainly focuses on what's being done by the 101st Airborne Division and what was tried vis-a-vis robot platoons with A Company, 1-29 Infantry (the experimental force). The other light divisions are doing ...
2025-04-05 06:32:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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 you for your patience, this took a while to put together.
2025-03-30 04:27:02 +0000 UTC View Post