The reason I posted this topic is that I'm trying to figure out what a division, regiment, battalion, company, platoon would look like c. 2000, before Omega.
It seems like the consensus here is that, instead of significantly smaller units, units are merged to keep them near their nominal full strength.
In other words, instead of a battalion having three badly understrength companies, it may have only two slightly understrength ones. Is this right?
The problem I see with regiments becoming battalions and divisions becoming regiments, etc. is that canon seems to refute this. It doesn't look like the U.S. Army, at least, has "lost" any divisions by 2000 (quite the opposite, actually). Division strengths are way down but it seems rather unlikely that a division in 2000 will have only one or two regiments or a single brigade, each made up of one or two battalions or two companies, and so on. It makes more sense to me that the division would keep its basic early war structure (albeit without a lot of the dedicated support units listed in its pre-war TOEs) but with much smaller units. Otherwise, why not redesignate the divisions as Brigades or whatever?
What am I missing here.
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