En el foro de defencetalk.com hay un hilo abierto
http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/army- ... sion-9064/sobre una hipotética división para ayuda humanitaria en el exterior con su propia capacidad de autodefensa, aerotransportada, con los servicios necesarios para este tipo de "situaciones".
Reproduzco una de los posts:
"Originally Posted by lobbie111
With the ever increasing number of humanitarian missions that foreign forces are being sent on. What if you had a self supporting division (with its own protection) that was scalable and contained all the services essential to a humanitarian situation.
What kind of humanitarian situation? Post-war? Natural? With combat or without?
Sweeping, splurging:
Within three brigades each three identical regiments each with a signals engineering platoon, a NBC platoon, two engineer companies, two medical companies and two logistics companies.
Each brigade with a fourth regiment holding: three engineer companies for running deployable field camps; three medical companies and a UAV-operating recon company for theater surveillance and tracking; to each brigade an associated logistics battalion, and associated a security battalion with two military police and two light infantry companies.
At division level perhaps a not-so-airmobile heavy engineer regiment with two engineer battalions (specialized in reconstruction, NBC) and a battalion of military firefighters; a divisional logistics battalion; and a helicopter squadron with around 20-25 helicopters, including systems for both airborne firefighting and heavy lifting, and a signals battalion for overall coordination.
(**) Division
(*) 1st Brigade
(III) 1-1st Regiment
(I) Engineer Company (Light)
(I) Engineer Company (Light)
(I) Medical Company (Forward)
(I) Medical Company (MASH)
(I) Logistics Company (Vehicle)
(I) Logistics Company (Coordination)
(ooo) NBC Platoon (light decon)
(ooo) Signals Engineer Platoon (Reestablishment)
(III) 1-2nd Regiment (see 1st)
(III) 1-3rd Regiment (see 1st)
(III) 1-4th Regiment (Heavy)
(I) Engineer Company (Heavy Machinery)
(I) Engineer Company (Infrastructure)
(I) Engineer Company (Bridging)
(I) Medical Company (MASH)
(I) Medical Company (Civilian Coordination)
(I) Medical Company (Transport)
(I) UAV Recon Company
(II) Brigade Logistics Battalion
(II) Security Battalion (mixed Military Police / Infantry)
(*) 2nd Brigade (see 1st)
(*) 3rd Brigade (see 1st)
(III) Heavy Engineer Regiment
(II) Reconstruction Btl
(II) Heavy NBC Btl (cleanup)
(II) Firefighting Btl
(II) Divisional Logistics Btl
(II) Divisional Signals Battalion
(II) Divisional Helicopter Squadron"
Y este otro
"Originally Posted by lobbie111
Don't you think some light reocnstruction units are needed?
Nah, not really. Those two engineer companies in the heavy regiments - infrastructure and heavy machinery - would likely take that task, in coordination with civilian efforts.
The role of the engineer companies in the three regiments would be pretty much any initial tasks (e.g. the digging after an earthquake), later could support the "heavy" companies and feed them with manpower.
The Reconstruction Btl of the overall division would be more concerned with large-scale projects; say coordinating the rebuilding of damaged (or non-existant) public buildings, maybe establishing water supply on a larger scale (canals etc), and such things.
As for some of the other units:
UAV company: would contain platoons specific to aerial ground survey and surveillance and perhaps a number of teams with small drones for indepth searching of a disaster zone
Regimental logistics companies: one ensuring supply for the units of the regiment, the other coordinating and supporting civilian efforts (e.g. organizing supply distribution). About a company tasked with the latter would also exist within the brigade and division logistics battalions.
Regimental medical companies: one with about ten squad-sized teams operating mobile "in the field", the other establishing say three local small medical stations.
Brigade medical companies: one establishing a single larger MASH; one coordinating, and supporting, rescue and support efforts by civilian hospitals; one dedicated for medical transport, including out of the disaster zone.
Helo Squadron: probably about a dozen heavy and a dozen medium helos, prepped for firefighting, and at least the medium helos outfitted with sensors to support search and survey efforts.
NBC Forces: Single platoon for localized problems (e.g. chemical spills), with the NBC btl at division level dual-role and able to engage in both large-scale decontamination and - together with a engineer unit - in clean-up of contaminated areas.
The "Security Battalion" could e.g. consist of one military police and three infantry companies; the infantry companies would exclusively provide force protection to the brigade's camps (perhaps force protection teams accompanying other forces occasionally too), not much more possible with that force. For anything beyond pure force protection, or a heightened security state, i'd recommend an infantry brigade being attached to the division"
Curioso debate ¿no?