Ok, first of all your entire post is filled with assumptions that are simply wrong. I'll show you where, and hope you'll restrain your self next time.
The training time alone before an infantry man gets to his unit let alone deploys in the USA can be up to a year in and of itself. That doesn't count the unit workups ALL units go through prior to deployemnt. The Danes are far behind in this regards if all they require is a year in service.
I've been told by Americans on this board, and soldiers coming home from Iraq, that some US troops in combat units are deployed after around 6 months of training. That's from being civilian to being to being on the frontline.
BTW, what desert do you practice in? How do you practice multi regiment coordination when your who army is basically a regiment?.
NATO. Joined exercises. We have trained so much with the Brits and the Balts that we can basically assume leadership of their units, or join their units, with little trouble. Actually, in NATO Response Force 14, Denmark supplies the divisional staff and headquarters to the multinational division. We train this all the time, it works pretty well as long as it's the same partner nations you work with. Sure, it would be chaos if we had to do the same with Southern Europeans, whose armies are very different.
If that were true you would have comparable equipment, not better. Of course you are using the export versions of everything you have, so it is in fact inferior. Not to mention you have less of everything we do unit for unit. There are whole classes of equipment you simply don't have in your inventory
Assumption 1.
As I already wrote, a small army in a rich country is easier to supply.
While every Danish soldier, even the conscripts, homeguard and navy personal had optics, US troops in Iraq still used iron sights in lots of units, who still hadn't recieved them.
As for the export versions, we don't buy them if they are inferior. An example is the M16, which we buy from Canada in a license buildt and
improved version called the Deimaco.
Besides, some things are actually produced better in Europe than in USA, if you can possibly believe that.
Finally, the few things that we due to our small seize can't field, the Brits supply.
This is not a good thing, and is so much not a good thing that as your wiki points out your army is staining itself to swap this ratio. You do make a good point though, that you guys are so small your pool of personel is reduced and incestuous. There is a critical mass needed to have a health officer and NCO pool, 10K troops for your entire active army let alone your infantry is well below that.
Assumption 2.
Oh it is defitnitly a good thing. It's modern warfare in a nutshell. The amount of combat support has only grown during the century - in all armies.
But nice to see that you base your knowledge on a wiki article
The Brits like working with you better because you are submissive and cooperative, a symtom of being an obvious second fiddle. The US are the swinging dicks of thier areas like the British, two big dogs usually don't get along.
Assumption 3.
I guess that's why they put their units under our command then?
Look, we wanted battle group center, and we got our will, from the British. They send their guys to fight under our command, like we fought under theirs in Iraq.
So in other words, read what I wrote.
High pay means officers from better schools, NCOs that can afford an education, and in general better recruits overall. It also means that people stay in and keep their experiance. And because the US in't calling a reinforced regiment its entire army, there are plenty of career opportunities available to keep that experiance in..
Assumption 4.
What makes you think there isn't plenty of career opportunities here? First of all, we do not have the structure of a large regiment, but the structure of a small army, and as you might be aware of, the NATO structure is composed of multinational commands, with plenty of officers and NCO's working around Europe and elsewhere.
Btw, this isn't the US. Pay means less here, and our entire schoolsystem and society is different. Education is free, lot's of social security, universal healthcare etc. This means that the whole "No high pay, no good soldiers" isn't really as relevant here as one might think. On the contary, it means that our privates usually have an education before joining the army.
You might want to check how you got there. Hows your Air Mobility Command doing, I hear those Cessnas can be . .. .. .. .. . to maintain
I thought we were talking about women in the infantry? Anyway, we're too small a country to move everything ourselves, so we lease planes and pilots from you
Because you are so small you are incestious. There is little opportunity for advancement, so few stay in. Those who do advance are a small group, if one leaves for whatever reason you don't have anyone to fill it without promoting early.
Assumption 5.
This is too far out, Im not even going to write an answer.
Can your army even practice multi battalion manuevers by itself?
Do we need to? Read up upon NATO will you? We have units who function surperply around the allies we chose to work with. Under our leadership or theirs. We do both.
Size is liberating, and it allows for the incorporation of all sorts of capabilites that otherwise are not going to be available
Yes, so thank god for NATO and ISAF. We are grateful for US sattelites, planes and helicopters. As I guess you are grateful for our planes, helicopters and soldiers in your wars. But aren't we talking about women in the infantry?
It means they are not volunteers, and it means they very well may not want to be there. No US serviceman can say that, they are there because they want to be.
Assumption 6.
Since the draft period was reduced from 9 to 4 months, it has grown immensely popular. People go to the army - just to try it, with no obligations, and since a lot like it and stay, it's works as a perfect recruiting ground. In my platoon of 45 men, only 4 was forced to be there. Finally, drafties can chose to serve in the civilian homeguard and learn how to fight fires and stuff, if they don't like guns - or they can simply chose comminity service, so today they're almost all volunteers.
Are unfit men allowed in as well?
good job at showing so much restraint and decisive calmness in the heat of the argument.
