These pages provide an overview of and a set of links to the principal resources of the blog. These resources can also be accessed from the tag menu but that will provide a less structured view of the available information on the blog. Where there is no link to the item it is still a work in progress and will be posted at some time in the future.
Overview of Blog ORBAT resources
The ORBAT or TO&E posts cover the basic organisation and equipment structures of the force being described, they consider:
- how these varied over time with organisational and equipment change
- how and why force structures were tailored for specific missions, task organisation
- how these varied depending on geographical deployment
- how I have chosen to represent the units
- ORBAT - Soviet Late 80's Breakthrough Capability, Part 1 overview
- ORBAT-Soviet Late 80's Breakthrough Capability, Part 2 Army Independent Flamethrower Battalions
- ORBAT-Soviet Late 80's Breakthrough Capability, Part 3 Non Divisional Artillery Assets
- ORBAT-Soviet Late 80's Breakthrough Capability, Part 4 Frontal Aviation
- ORBAT - Soviet Task Org, Fronts against NORTHAG
- ORBAT - Soviet Task Org, Fronts in the Western TVD
- ORBAT - Soviet Divisional Units, Part 1 MRD Anti Tank Battalion
- ORBAT - Soviet Divisional Units, Part 2 MRD Artillery Regiment
- ORBAT - Soviet Air Assault Capability Part 1, Overview and Lift Assets
- ORBAT - Soviet Air Assault Capability Part 2, Army Air Assault Battalion
- ORBAT - 1980's Soviet MRR and TRR, Part 1 Deployment and ORBAT
- ORBAT - 1980's Soviet MRR and TRR, Part 2 Tank Change
- ORBAT - 1980's Soviet MRR and TRR, Part 3 Engineers
- ORBAT - 1980's Soviet MRR and TRR, Part 3a Engineer Company
- ORBAT - 1980's Soviet MRR and TRR, Part 4 Artillery
- ORBAT - Soviet Unit Titles and Abbreviations
The Canadian Army in Europe
- ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 1, Armoured Divisions and Brigades
- ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 2, Task Organisation
- ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 3, Equipment Change
- ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 4, Recce Group
- ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 5, Artillery
- ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 6, Royal Engineers
- ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 7, The Infantry Battalion
- ORBAT - 1980's British, Army Air Corps Aviation Regiment
- ORBAT - The RAF in Germany in the 1980s
- ORBAT - 1980s British Air Defence
- ORBAT - 1980's British BG, NATO and BAOR Reinforcement, Part 1 General
- ORBAT - 1980's British BG, NATO and BAOR Reinforcement, Part 2 The Infantry Brigades
- ORBAT- 1980's British BG, NATO and BAOR Reinforcement, Part 3. Infantry Battalion, Type A, Mech (Wh) and Light
- ORBAT - NATO's Northern Army Group, 1 Br Corps Deployment
Work in progress includes Aviation and Air Support, Light Battle Groups, Mechanised Battle Groups and Airmobile Battle Groups.
ORBAT Research Resources
There are a number of excellent web and book resources that I have used in compiling my views of these Cold War ORBATS where I have reviewed these as blog posts they are listed below:
Web Resources
I have already reviewed a number of useful web sites, the descriptions of what is contained can be found on the review pages together with links to the resources.
- Review-Web Resources, The Essentials of Cold War Soviet Doctrine and Organisation for Free
- Review - Web Resources, British Army Units since 1945
- Review - Web Resources, Soviet 16th Air Army
- Review -Web Resources, Fire and Furry Cold War ORBATS and Modern Resources
- Review - Web Resources, Armoured Acorn Site
- Review - Web Resources, Air Power Australia
- Review - Web Resources, The CIA FOIA Site
- Review - Web Resources, DTIC on Line
In addition to the reviewed web resources there are a number of useful links under the side bar Research resources, which sits below the Corsec Engineering and Model Hobbies Ads about half way down the side bar. These Include:
British Army Orbats, The DTIC Repository, Dutch Orbat 1985, The US Army FM 100 series publication downloads, NATO Orbat 1989, Orbat.com, Soviet Units in GSFG, US Army Combined Arms Research Library, and the Warsaw Pact 1989 Orbat
Books
- Review - Book, A History of Soviet Airborne Forces
- Review - Books, Armies of NATO's Central Front
- Review - Books, The Military Balance
- Review - Books, The Soviet Conduct of Tactical Manouvre
- Review - Books, The British Army in Germany an organisational history 1947 - 2004
- Review - Books, First Clash, K Macksey
- Review - Books, The Encyclopaedia of the Modern British Army
- Review - Books, Weapons and Tactics of the Soviet Army, Isbey
In addition to the reviewed books, there is a book list on the right hand side below the S&S Advert, this lists every book I own on the cold war. If they are available from amazon you will find a link to them in the cold war book store where you can access any reviews on Amazon. The most useful of those with regard to ORBAT that I have not already reviewed are:
Inside the Soviet Army Today, both the Osprey title and the Suverov book, Rats Tails (Gulf War, useful task org examples), The British Army Ospreys and The Modern British Airforce.
The Cold War Bookstore contains links to over 60 Titles on the Cold War covered in my book list
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