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Question About Military Unit Organization

Started by Dr Rotwang!, November 14, 2007, 08:45:15 AM

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November 14, 2007, 08:36:49 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Lately I've wanted to do some military SF stuff with, like, armored cav battalions and flight squadrons and legions and crap.

Trouble is I don't know my fire groups from my companies.  

Where can I learn some stuff about how military units are organized?  I found a wiki page, and it's a start.  But I want more!

Military unit sizes and desigations, typical components (which will likely vary from nation to nation -- the Sontarans might field more tanks in one unit tha the Goltainians do), etc.

Also, the differences between naval or starships-- cruisers vs. dreadnoughts vs etc.

Thanks!

Tom Clancy has a series of books on the military that I found quite informative without going into mind numbing detail. Airborne, every man a tiger are some of the few. These book basically take one element of military organization and explains. Like Every Man a Tiger is about an air wing.
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