CONFLICT STUDIESUnits
What our formations are built to do — the open-source anchor every serial is mapped against. Four packages this edition, each with its own formations.
The Army's first Combined Arms Division and its standing test-bed for new battle concepts and tactics. Integrates infantry, armour, artillery, engineers, signals, intelligence and air defence under Mechanised and Motorised Combined Arms Brigades — the natural owner of the "degrade-then-exploit" model.
Combined arms division built around the Infantry formation. Carries the close-terrain and urban manoeuvre burden — exactly where the stand-off FPV / hold-vs-advance dilemma and fire-discipline lessons bite hardest. Owns the mobility-as-protection problem.
Provides mobile firepower and shock to spearhead the advance and seize / hold key objectives. Operates the Leopard 2SG MBT, Hunter AFV, Bionix IFV and Bronco ATTC — the platforms directly in the FPV / fibre-optic threat envelope and the natural exploitation force once logistics are degraded.
Anchors the sense-and-strike fight — fusing ISR, targeting and fires into a single sense-to-shooter chain. Owns the problem of protecting that chain end to end when control links are jammed and the shooter is as exposed as the sensor.
The deep-fires and air-defence arm — HIMARS reach, counter-battery and ground-based air defence. Holds the launcher-survivability problem: keep a guidance path that survives jamming, do not pause the fire plan after a leadership kill, and protect the launcher as hard as the command post.
Owns the intelligence fight that has to be won before the strike — collection, target development and ISR. Matches target development to the adversary's adaptation speed and feeds the sense-to-shooter chain that fires depend on.
Breaching, bridging, obstacle and survivability work. This edition pushes engineers to the front of the assault — armoured to tank standard and inside the manoeuvre bubble — with every work party protected like a high-value target and dwell time treated as a survivability limit.
Owns command, control and the electromagnetic spectrum. Builds C2 that keeps working through full RF denial and the near-frontline satellite dead zone — backups, relays and pre-authorised comms-out so units fight on for 30+ minutes with the link down.
Elite force for pre-emptive small-team operations in enemy territory. Carries the individual-FPV-survival problem — the drone threat now reaches the single soldier, so the hear-it-then-cover reflex and hunting the operator (not the drone) become individual skills.
Elite rapid-deployment infantry — heliborne and expeditionary. Reads ceasefire exploitation and incremental encroachment as deliberate doctrine: naming the TTP, mapping cumulative change, and treating relief-in-place handover as a threat-elevated phase.
ENABLERS >> Map each serial onto the 3rd-Gen triad — Precision Information, Precision Fires, Precision Manoeuvre. The counter-UAS fight pulls in SCUDO (Counter-UAS Development & Operations Group), DARE (Drone Accelerator for Rapid Equipping), upgraded HIMARS for interdiction reach, and Vesper for organic ISR.
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Conflict Studies & Insights — the monthly digest. Edition Jun 2026 — four packages: Manoeuvre, Sense & Strike, Combat Support and Expeditionary.
This digest is the formation-level distillation of the Conflict Studies & Insights weekly brief, which tracks the signals across the five conflict theatres. The weekly answers "what's happening"; this monthly answers "so what — and what to rehearse".
AI-distilled from open-source reporting. Each serial turns recurring weekly signals into a rehearsable training prompt mapped to a formation across the four packages — Manoeuvre, Sense & Strike, Combat Support and Expeditionary. It is not cleared intelligence or doctrine.
The weekly brief tracks Russia–Ukraine, Israel–Lebanon, Israel–Gaza, Israel–US–Iran and Thailand–Cambodia. This edition's serials, across all four packages, draw from Russia–Ukraine, Israel–Lebanon, Israel–Gaza and Thailand–Cambodia — several spanning more than one theatre; Israel–US–Iran is tracked weekly but yielded no serial this edition.
Analyst review required before promulgation. Outcome verdicts reflect open-source reporting at time of writing and may revise as events develop. Verify against current staff assessments and apply judgement before use.