CHAPTER 2: Organization

    This chapter presents the command structure and equipment allocation of the OPFOR. The organization charts are a guideline and may be changed for a specific CGSC course. In case of discrepancies, consult your instructor for guidance.

    The army group is the largest operational-level grouping. The OPFOR General Staff activates and organizes such forces to conduct major ground maneuver components of a strategic operation within a theater. An army group has no fixed organization. Its composition is a function of its mission in the context of the strategic mission. Most of the ground maneuver divisions assigned to an army group are subordinate to armies or corps. However, some divisions and separate brigades may remain independent of an army or corps and directly subordinate to the army group. The numbers of armies, corps, divisions, and separate brigades can vary widely from one army group to another. In addition to these ground maneuver forces, an army group normally has an air army.

I. Army Group

* There is no fixed organization for an army group. A typical army group may contain one to four mechanized or tank armies. In lieu of some of these armies, it may have one or two mechanized or tank corps. However, some army groups may only have the smaller corps organizations. Some may also include separate mechanized infantry or tank brigades or mechanized infantry or tank divisions that are not part of a corps or an army.

** Airborne forces are not organic to an army group. However, a separate airborne infantry brigade may be under operational control of an army group. Higher command may allocate additional forces from an airborne division to support an army group in a given operation; these are normally brigade-size elements.

*** Higher command may allocate a naval infantry brigade to support an army group in a given operation.

**** The Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff controls all special-purpose forces (SPF). It normally allocates an SPF brigade to support the operations of an army group.

***** Some army groups could have an artillery division, or perhaps two of them. If an army group has no more than one artillery division, it may also have a separate SP gun brigade and/or a separate MRL regiment or brigade.