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Old 06-19-2017, 12:03 PM
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I ran across this article on a cool website called The War Zone. The concept of horse cavalry/dragoons/mule-mobile infantry is alive and well in the year 2017.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...orseback-again
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Rise, dead thread! Rise!

I ran across this article on a cool website called The War Zone. The concept of horse cavalry/dragoons/mule-mobile infantry is alive and well in the year 2017.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...orseback-again
A couple of really interesting bits in here - more bits to add to my article...
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FYI did you see the Kenyan Cav unit that was in the East Africa Sourcebook? They are fighting as dragoons and really arent made to fight from horseback.
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FYI did you see the Kenyan Cav unit that was in the East Africa Sourcebook? They are fighting as dragoons and really arent made to fight from horseback.
Already there in part but I need to update it to match the canon article slightly.
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James, have you started using your original profile again or has it been hacked?
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James, have you started using your original profile again or has it been hacked?
Oddly I used a new machine and somehow it has pulled the original password through Google - confused.com!
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Some good information here on horse populations in the world in 2000 - very relevant to what might be available for horsed cavalry in the world

http://www.fao.org/tempref/AG/Reserv...dka_Thesis.pdf
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