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Originally Posted by Webstral
Given the extraordinary turmoil of the nuclear exchange and the fighting in 1998, I think it’s safe to say that all bets are off regarding equipment. Any number of circumstances can be imagined in which a battalion or regiment is switched between divisions, to say nothing of the fate of stragglers. War creates chaos, while human nature attempts to rebuild order. The interaction between these two dynamics shatters structures and rationalizes the irrational simultaneously and in alternating sequence.
Webstral
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Yeah I know what you mean. It one of many things. I don't think many Divisions would survive intact with the units they went overseas with. With the exceptions of the 3rd US Army and IV US Corps for the US Army at least. The 3rd US Army had decent rotation rate in which troops were withdrawn and then sent back to wherever they were needed. The IV Corps wasn't sent over until late 1998 so it would have very few Companies, Battalions and Brigades changed from their original Division.
Like I have said before on these boards all one has to do is look at how the US Army has conducted it major Deployments since the Vietnam War. Rarely when Divisions or larger units were deployed were they fully deployed without a lot of cross-attachments from other units within the same Division or Corps to have a fully operational Division.
I have that with the Twilight 2000 war for the first year or so, units would traded, with them generally getting back to their parent units. After early 1998 it would become more difficult to send them back to their parent units, NATO units would be like Armor/Mechanized units of the Soviet Army in 1944 and 1945 where if there was an active offensive and some had to fall out, you more or less wrote them off as part of your organization. They would be end up with what ever the next units had came along when they were brought back to life to continue.