monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Take away the ability to man every unit to that standard, and flexibility stops being a nice-to-have — it becomes the thing holding the line together. Army corps supply the baseline — hold ground, absorb pressure. 1120
monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Everything else, the counterattacks, the plugged gaps, the spoiling attacks that keep the enemy off balance, falls to whatever mobile reserve the Army can field, currently formalized as assault regiments, though the label is newer than the practice. 1100
monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 13/07/2026These formations grew out of ad hoc detachments pulled together from other units whenever a sector needed reinforcing, and rebranding them into a fixed structure hasn't ended that habit. 1100