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**HedgeYourBets** · 08-03-2012, 02:38 AM

Up yours fat reservist

Children, children....

A guardsman is superior to an infantryman, OK? Nobody is taking that away from guardsmen.

However, an infantry general is probably a bigger post than a guards general for the following reasons:

1. The infantry corps is larger than the guards
2. The job of a general is not to win battles. The job of a general is 90% to maintain supply routes and equip your men, and 10% military strategy. This is a larger job for the infantry.
3. The job of the infantry is not only to fight wars, but to hold ground. As you have learnt from the Iraq war, holding ground is actually the trickiest part of the war. This means that you not only have to be a warrior, you also have to be a politician.
4. The infantry is also the end user for a lot of the support arms, and they are subordinate to the infantry. ie the infantry is usually telling artillery, signals, air defence, etc what to do rather than the other way around.

08-03-2012, 02:38 AM	#32
HedgeYourBets Join Date Aug 2008 Posts 4,655 Senior Member	Up yours fat reservist Children, children.... A guardsman is superior to an infantryman, OK? Nobody is taking that away from guardsmen. However, an infantry general is probably a bigger post than a guards general for the following reasons: 1. The infantry corps is larger than the guards 2. The job of a general is not to win battles. The job of a general is 90% to maintain supply routes and equip your men, and 10% military strategy. This is a larger job for the infantry. 3. The job of the infantry is not only to fight wars, but to hold ground. As you have learnt from the Iraq war, holding ground is actually the trickiest part of the war. This means that you not only have to be a warrior, you also have to be a politician. 4. The infantry is also the end user for a lot of the support arms, and they are subordinate to the infantry. ie the infantry is usually telling artillery, signals, air defence, etc what to do rather than the other way around.
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