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Good Morning All, I recently found this forum while keeping track of Jim Storr's books. I have read the book (more than once) and will read it again as the conclusions and methodology fascinate me. I will not criticize anyone for their opinions but I would like to point out that Jim does state (its in the title and he reiterates here) that the book focuses on unfought battles of the Cold War , that is his conclusions are based upon his playing out hundreds of wargame scenarios and the relevant tactics of the period espoused by different armies (it does help that he was a Pongoe in one...) that never put them into practice in a real blood, guts, and Murphy's Law war (IMHO the Gulf War was an anomaly in some ways, I digress). In a similar vein to "Achtung Panzer!" and "Infanterie greift an!", "Battlegroup!" shows us the theories, tactics, equipment, and thought process of a period of time. The only difference is the two other books had a Great War before and a real war after their publication. I enjoyed the book and I know of other Gents who were also on the the ground, so to speak, at the time who have rated it highly. Lastly, full transparency, before reading the book I had come to the conclusion that current IFVs and their tactics were possibly a dead end, a coffin for ten or at the very least not fit for role....that is protecting the TANKS from other Infantry so they could deal death and destruction. (now Infantry accompanying Tanks seizing an objective, that is fine but a secondary role, the consolidation and defence of that objective should be the role of follow on Infantry formations...again, I digress). I even went so far as to state in another forum that the current British Army should be looking at something similar to Merkava/Namer combination (BTW the previous pic in this thread is not Namer, that is a Nagamachon APC based on the Centurion which IS supposed to operate in urban/COIN enviroments. Namer is based upon Merkava and has similar speed and maneuverability). Getting back to Jim and Battlegroup! I'll give it 4.9 out of 5 Stars...the only reason for that is I want more!