The_Zergling
Junior Member
I'm curious... how do you guys even decide which infantry of which country is better trained than another anyway? It's not like you can really compare how well someone's trained. Discipline under fire, or morals, is one thing, what kind of equipment, their support, how much time they spend learning and practicing tactics and weapons usage... the list goes on and on...
If the definition of "Best trained" means that this country's infantry does more pushups or runs more miles than another, fine, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will perform better in combat. Besides, a soldier well trained for a task won't necessarily be adept at performing another. For instance even though the US Army has been taking heavy casualties in Iraq, a simple thing to note is that the US Army was never designed to be an occupation army, it wasn't designed to fight guerilla or urban warfare. Delta Force, or SEALs are, and I have no doubt they are very well trained regardless of your definition of training. What I'm saying is that when youdecide how well a unit actually performs, you should also try to take into account the situation, and what the unit's original role was designed to do.
So I can't really make my own list, considering the only militaries I know the most about are the Taiwan and US militaries. Everything else on the rest of the world is kind of brief, and stereotypical, like, "The Chinese are very well disciplined, or the North Koreans train as if there were no tomorrow..." stuff like that but I really have no idea what "Best Trained infantries" in this thread means... it's just too broad...
Does it mean tactics? Or physical training? What units count as infantry? Those that march along with tanks or those that drop with helicopters or those that hide in a city waiting to ambush others or special forces or whatever? To me, infantry means those "walking on foot" but I dunno...
Please clarify?
If the definition of "Best trained" means that this country's infantry does more pushups or runs more miles than another, fine, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will perform better in combat. Besides, a soldier well trained for a task won't necessarily be adept at performing another. For instance even though the US Army has been taking heavy casualties in Iraq, a simple thing to note is that the US Army was never designed to be an occupation army, it wasn't designed to fight guerilla or urban warfare. Delta Force, or SEALs are, and I have no doubt they are very well trained regardless of your definition of training. What I'm saying is that when youdecide how well a unit actually performs, you should also try to take into account the situation, and what the unit's original role was designed to do.
So I can't really make my own list, considering the only militaries I know the most about are the Taiwan and US militaries. Everything else on the rest of the world is kind of brief, and stereotypical, like, "The Chinese are very well disciplined, or the North Koreans train as if there were no tomorrow..." stuff like that but I really have no idea what "Best Trained infantries" in this thread means... it's just too broad...
Does it mean tactics? Or physical training? What units count as infantry? Those that march along with tanks or those that drop with helicopters or those that hide in a city waiting to ambush others or special forces or whatever? To me, infantry means those "walking on foot" but I dunno...
Please clarify?
