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Totally agree with you Waylander, a lighter formation has no hope against heavy armour.
But, even with just one of the Mechanised Brigades re-roled to a light formation, RSLF would still have three heavy Armour Brigades and four Mechanised Brigades available to it. I sincerely believe that this is more than enough. Further, the only real regional armour threat is Israel and I can't see Tel Aviv and Riyadh facing off anytime soon.
In my opinion, what the RSLF does need, are more rapidly deployable armour formations that can cope with the more likely asymmetric threats that currently lie just across Saudi's border. Obviously there is Iraq to the north with its problems, but also there are growing social tensions in Bahrain and Kuwait. In the Yemen, an increasingly brutal insurgency is underway that the Government there claims is being stoked by an 'outside power'.
If the need for intervention ever came, apparently it would take weeks to move the heavier Brigades to these potential hotspots. This despite most units already being based close to the border within the Military Cities - which themselves are part of the problem, Ken Pollack describes as a modern 'maginot line' that has created a static mentality within the RSLF. This may have been effective in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War, but times and threats have now changed.
Thus my belief that we need to rethink the RSLF's force structure.
