[Raellus]

I agree with both of you. Something would have to be done to adjust divisional structures due to the massive loss of manpower and equipment and the lack of adequate replacements for both.

I think that most NATO and WTO infantry divisions would replace most (if not all) of their trucks with horses. Horses would be used to tow supply wagons and artillery pieces. Trucks would be needed more by the armored and mechanized infantry (motor rifles) divisions.

I also take the division strengths given in canon to refer to refer to each division's combat strength. In other words, infantry and combat vehicle and artillery crews. I think that, by 2000, most if not all of supply and logistics would be taken care of by people "drafted" out of the local population (and/or volunteers) in each division's cantonment area (under the supervision of military personel, of course).

Another interesting tidbit about VGDs that might reappear in the Twilight World is that in many VGDs, one of the three infantry regiments would be assigned bicyles to give the division some semblance of a mobile reserve.

Based on armor strengths listings in canon, it looks like, by 2000 at the latest, armored divisions would be down to one very understrength armored [tank] regiment (at company strength). One of the armored infantry regiments would be mounted in IFVs and APCs while the other would likely be mounted in trucks (due to a lack of proper APCs and IFVs). Most of the supply chain would also have trucks so that it could keep up with the fighting components of the divisions. This follows the model of early and late WWII Panzer divisions where one regiment of Panzergrenadiers in each Panzer division were mounted in halftracks while the other was mounted in trucks.

Also, I think you'd see the widespread return of desotankniki [sic] or "tank riders". In WW2 Soviet armored divisions, most of the armored infantry rode into battle on the decks of tanks or followed the spearhead in trucks. Very few were lucky enough to be mounted in Lend-Lease M3 halftracks. To be clear, I think that "tank riders" would be common in all armies, c. 2000.