You have to arm a country

If your using solely training exercises as reference for the effectiveness of the soldier in the US army (or Marines) you could also find several NATO exercises where the US demolished its competition. Besides, the American army and military has had more experience then any other in the world in recent conflicts, this means that the troops, in effect, have far more experience, which is much more important then a training exercise.
This is something you assume.

What do you actually know about the deployments of European NATO countries?
Do you know, for example, where Danish soldiers have been deployed since 1945?
Do you know how many years we have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Do you know what we are currently doing in the conflict in Syria?
The Danish military is not very large compared to the US.
On the other hand, our soldiers been deployed countless times which means that virtually all our personnel, from the youngest private up to the chief of staff have lots of experience.

Our most recent mission is in Nigeria where Danish Special Forces are training Nigerian SF.

That experience is more important than training is BS!
There´s a reason that even professional soldiers with combat experience constant train even while they are deployed.

BTW It takes 52 weeks to fully train a infantryman in the Danish Army.
 
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Wow, moral debating aside. Really started this thread from a state financial perspective, a mere budgeting exercise. Of course it's obvious any kit is nothing more than an inanimate object with no skilled service men to use it. But I didn't name this thread "How you would allocate the training budget for a small county" did I? ;) Thanks for the input however, good stuff.
 
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They're training Boka harem since they are one in the same as the Nigerian Army .

I want to settle for that black speech creates jobs in the Sahara and flexible curtains with salmon soul but discussing flour and opportunities from funny thought is my hot sausage from heat houses and stalwart giraffers opinions about attitudes
 
Honestly, if my motivation was focused solely on defense, I wouldn't even bother with MBTs or APCs since they would be targeted by every missile, artillery piece, and enemy MBT in the invasion force. Every single One of these losses would be heavily felt, including the crew, and their training investment and experience.

I would invest in good motorised transport to help facilitate quick displacement of troops and logistics. These transports would be both military as well as civilian to mask movement and confuse the enemy on who and what they can engage. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of this arm. Without these, all other systems will falter over time. They will become crucial to shoring up holes in the lines (by quickly transporting needed soldiers there) as well as keeping those soldiers in the fight longer through the supply train and casualty evacuation. They're easy to maintain and anyone can drive them. Spare parts aren't really a problem and you could fuel to whole fleet for probably the same cost of fuel an entire MBT battalion would require.

I would also invest heavily in man portable fire and forget AT missiles. Probably the Javelin would be my choice since they can defeat any MBT armor in the world and have almost a 100% guarantee of destroying any vehicle they target. (Just a squad of these guys on some high ground can literally hold up a battalions worth of armor single handedly and they have as good of a range as any tank) these are fairly easy to train personnel on and each lost system is much less felt than an MBT or APC.

I think a good mixture of arms within a typical western light infantry battalion would be both economical and efficient at arming a country for defense. (The average western fireteam has quite a lot more firepower at their disposal than their eastern counterparts)It would be unrealistic to have any formation much larger than a brigade for such a country. Which would mean the fighting battalions would have to be very lean. It would also unemcumber this force from the additional training, workload, and spare parts that would quickly bog down any mechanized force.

I would, however invest in good spotting and targetting systems, such as the LRAS or LLDR which would give me a line of sight targeting system to the horizon for the soldiers on the ground with 10 digit grid coordinate fidelity. This would be a huge force multiplier integrated into a fire support team within a platoon. Nothing quite like using 155mm artillery to snipe tanks from 15 km away...meanwhile the enemy doesn't even know they're being tracked or where they're being spotted from.

I would also have a good mixture of 105mm and 155mm towed artillery pieces with standard as well as PCM fuze packages(which are actually pretty cheap these days) which would bring my ballistic dispersion at maximum range (~30km) under 25 meters. This would be a great compliment to those targeting systems I invested in (along with the digital software to process missions in less than a minute)

The great thing about all of these systems is that they are easy to train, easy to maintain, cannot be jammed, and can cause any invasion force to think heavily about whether invasion is really worth it. There is more....but I'm tired so this will do for now.
 
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