Alternative to cavalry

[rupol2000]

I will briefly explain the essence of the terminology.
An attack on the front can be divided into 2 stages: 1) a breakthrough and 2) an operational maneuver is an action behind enemy lines to destroy communications and supplies.

At first, the cavalry did both, with an increase in the depth of the front and an increase in defensive fire, the breakthrough was carried out by tanks and artillery, and the cavalry performed operational tasks.

What armed technique can do it better than cavalry now?

btw In general, it seems to me that cross-country 2-wheeled motorcycles would fit perfectly here, they need speed and good cross-country ability on uneven terrain.

 

[White 6]

I will briefly explain the essence of the terminology.
An attack on the front can be divided into 2 stages: 1) a breakthrough and 2) an operational maneuver is an action behind enemy lines to destroy communications and supplies.

At first, the cavalry did both, with an increase in the depth of the front and an increase in defensive fire, the breakthrough was carried out by tanks and artillery, and the cavalry performed operational tasks.

What armed technique can do it better than cavalry now?

btw In general, it seems to me that cross-country 2-wheeled motorcycles would fit perfectly here, they need speed and good cross-country ability on uneven terrain.

Cavalry's strength is and always has been in it agility, and speed of having its own combine arms assets in the advance, inherent within the organization, that allowed it to move farther and faster, able to more quickly focus combat power further front or flank as necessary, and provide for it's own defense without the need to pickup or call upon supporting elements, as other branches conducted most of their training pure. How you train is how you fight best, not just at soldier level, but at leadership levels.
Now days, everybody trains as combined arms teams, including unit leaders up and down the chains of command, task organization is a way of life, and taught heavy in all Combat Arms Officer Basic Courses. This transition to the way troops, units and leaders train goes back to the 70s and 80s, but has been largely perfected in the wars, of Gulf War 1 and all that have followed. Making Cavalry far less unique in organization and tactic on the modern battlefield.

 

[rupol2000]

Now days, everybody trains as combined arms teams, including unit leaders up and down the chains of command, task organization is a way of life, and taught heavy in all Combat Arms Officer Basic Courses. This transition to the way troops, units and leaders train goes back to the 70s and 80s, but has been largely perfected in the wars, of Gulf War 1 and all that have followed. Making Cavalry far less unique in organization and tactic on the modern battlefield.

Were these any official reforms? Where can I read about it? Or what was the name of this reform program?

 

[White 6]

Were these any official reforms? Where can I read about it? Or what was the name of this reform program?

Yes, as it became inherent to all training. I could go up in the attic and retrieve an FM on combined arms operations with a date of 1980 or so, but unlikely you could find copy online. To this day, I still have a heck of a military FM library upstairs.
I started out Cavalry, but branched Armor knowing where I was going. I was in a different type of unit, (a Separate Armored brigade) another attempt to take advantage of inherently place combat assets pre task organized (so to speak) with its own armor battalions, and infantry battalion, artillery battalion and support battalion, plus a few other less than battalion assets, probably an experiment to see whether keeping and training all these assets in concert under one unified command structure, commanded by a one star, led to greater efficiency of operation, so you could say I grew up with this type thinking. It was a lot like Cav, but we didn't wear Stetsons and spurs when we formally dined or got drunk. It was planned to occupy a division sized piece of the battlefield during the Cold War, and we regularly ate Cav Squadrons lunches in exercises.