>>42850
>Might as well drop the pretence.
Heh, in WWII we did the opposite. Since our army was brigade centered, with two regiments (infantry, not counting artillery and anything else), and contemporary modern armies (most notably German and Russian) operated with three regiment divisions there was a pressure to make our army competitive and upgrade the brigades into regiments. But that would needed plus one regiments in each, and that would meant disbanding some of the brigades and redirect their composing units, and this would resulted in less major units. The other solution would have been setting up more regiments and fill up the ranks of the existing ex-brigades (now divisions). They chose the second solution, but in practice it went slow and they ended up with a bunch of two regiment divisions, which they named light divisions and reserve divisions and such. They were used as full value divisions...