So what's the point of a Light Battalion then?
Seems like it just needs to be jettisoned or combined into a light brigade with air mobility to make it useful for specific tasks that only a light brigade can do. Or should we give all the light brigades new jobs and make them fully mechanized across the board? If you want to jump out of planes then join CSOR.
Why use the light battalion for this? This means you are losing an infantry battalion. Cavalry Squadrons are at their core Armoured Recce Squadrons and we have those existing already.
Or is this a case of we don't have enough Recce to go around and also have an Armoured Squadron (I think we use Regiment for this size of armoured formation?) formation attached to make up the CMBG. Are you using the ABCT as your template with only 2x Mech Companies and 2x Armor Companies per Combined Arms Battalion?
If you only have heavy forces then the enemy will go where the heavy forces can't.
America won the conventional war in Kuwait in 1991 and Iraq in 2003. So the opposition fought differently in different places.
Israel fights with heavy forces because they don't have far to travel and they are backed by a well developed network of highways.
Sweden and Finland fight with light forces and lots of artillery backed by local armoured manoeuvre forces because much of their countryside is covered in trees and bogs. And because the forces are local, and locally organized they have little need for airlift of any kind. A strategy based on dispersed light forces armed with mortars and ATGMs plays to their strengths. They also have strong GBAD networks and Air Defence Fighter forces.
Sweden has
1000x Unarmoured Bandvagns - locally designed and built
246x Armoured Bandvagns - locally designed and built
354x CV9040 IFV(Tracked) - locally designed and built
316x WAPC - designed and built in Finland
165x Combat Boats - locally designed and built for use by the marines
These are backed by
121x MBTs - German
215x 81mm mortars - designed and built in Finland
84x 120mm mortars - designed and built in Finland
60x 120mm Mjolner self propelled mortars - locally designed and built
72x 155mm Archers self propelled howitzers - locally designed and built
Air Defence consists of
27x CV9040 AD variants to defend the manoeuvre forces - locally designed and built
70x RBS-70 MANPADS - locally designed and built
12x Patriot launchers - US systems
71x Gripens - locally designed and built
All that to defend a population and area equivalent to Alberta with a terrain and climate not dissimilar
Finland has
426x Bandvagns - designed and built in Sweden
102x CV9030 IFV(Tracked) - designed and built in Sweden
628x WAPC - locally designed and built
These are backed by
200x MBTs - German
550x 81mm mortars - locally designed and built
698x 120mm mortars - locally designed and built
167x 155mm towed howitzers - locally designed and built
18x 120mm AMOS self propelled mortars - locally designed and built in cooperation with Sweden
48x 155mm K9 self propelled howitzers - Korean
40x MRLS M270 - US
Air Defence consists of a complex mix of autocannons and missiles from the USSR, the US, the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland and Norway together with 55 F18s which are being replaced by 64 F35s
Finland also maintains a Warsaw Pact era inventory.
110x BMD-2 IFV(Tracked) - designed and built in the Soviet Union
389x TAPC - MTLB - designed and built in the Soviet Union
471x 122mm towed howitzers - designed and built in the Soviet Union
24x 152mm towed field guns - designed and built in the Soviet Union
74x 122mm self propelled howitzers - designed and built in the Soviet Union
34x 122mm MRLS - Czech
That defends the population of BC in the area of Newfoundland and Labrador with terrain and climate similar to Labrador or Northern Ontario,