Where are the Command and Staff Colleges in the Inner Sphere, and do the Clans have anything like it?
Oh yeah, I just gave a short list from memory but there is many more- just for the movement. Which does not even come close for producing a coordinated Op Plan for initiating a battle- especially if its the mech battalion being the command unit of supporting armor & infantry. Which is also something CGSC would do- teach combined arms since the officers would come to it out of their branch (mech, armor, infantry, VTOLs, PAO . . . ).
Oh yeah, I just gave a short list from memory but there is many more- just for the movement. Which does not even come close for producing a coordinated Op Plan for initiating a battle- especially if its the mech battalion being the command unit of supporting armor & infantry. Which is also something CGSC would do- teach combined arms since the officers would come to it out of their branch (mech, armor, infantry, VTOLs, PAO . . . ).
The point I'm getting at is in the Regimental system, the Regiment recruits/equips/trains/retains personnel (for their entire careers, normally. No PCSing between regiments!). The notion that a cadet goes to Nagelring or Sun Zhang and then goes to a regiment is inherently Continental. As one of the very few canonical examples consistent with the Regimental model, look at the 3rd Proserpina Hussars and the University of Proserpina. The UofP trained cadets, but only for the Hussars regiments. And later on (post Jihad) we have the example of the 3rd maintaining their own entire Academy (based out of an Overlord DropShip, IIRC) even after the Hussars were disbanded and the regiment was transferred to the Pesht Warlord's District Regulars.