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Removing the turret basket would allow addition of two seats on each side.

And apparently the main reason they ride buffaloes instead of horses is due to much of the area they patrol being often flooded and horses don't do well when standing in water for long, getting abscesses on lower legs that can kill them, while water buffaloes are unaffected.

It's like Warsaw Pact M-113, it can be used for pretty much anything.

Sweden has similar attitude towards weapons exports as Switzerland, so they will sell you weapons, but with many caveats and will cut you off if weapons actually get used. Not to mention, as you mentioned, that they are very susceptible to the pressure from the big powers, but then who isn't.

The amount of work needed to do this, it would be cheaper to simply build brand new vehicles, at least then you are not dealing with leftover decades old components.

Pipe dream, they were not capable of such operation.

They were doing well in Anatolia without Brusilov there, the problem was logistics and lack of equipment. So even if commanders received the reinforcements they needed, they couldn't supply them far from border due to adverse terrain.

It certainly ads their words a certain gravitas.

That would be a hateful ableism these days. Fat acceptance is en vogue now.

No, that was an encirclement operation over wast area.

That was nearly as large scale or as fiercely fought.

The fighting there was not as concentrated as in Stalingrad and Ržev meatgrinder, it was instead series of spaced out campaigns, plus lot of people dying of starvation.

But it couldn't be, logistics couldn't support such advance and Italians had advantage of interior supply lines to shuffle the troops to close the gap and supply them adequately, while Austrians struggled to bring fourth artillery, which they couldn't supply sufficiently to support the infantry...

To be fair he had a stiff competition in Conrad von Hotzendorf. Josip Broz would probably never become Tito if not for his moronic Carpathian offensives, at least Enver Pasha had the brains not to repeat the folly of winter offensive in the mountains. And Gorica would likely would likely not...

There are two options here, either units are declared high-readiness, despite not being or it will take couple of decades to reach the goal.

There is a budget for payroll, if it is not spent by the end of the fiscal year it might get reduced, which means reduced leeway for corruption.

They don't care, they only need enough warm bodies for the statistic. The higher ups believe the future is proxy wars with local forces being the ones who bleed, supported by US drones, aircraft and special forces. The fight against ISIS is their ideal campaign.

There was no way they could operate a seaplane that time of the year and they knew it, thus it is most likely the plane, it's equipment and support staff were not embarked

Same energy

As far as I remember the British still used their WWII vintage torpedoes on their nuclear subs well into 90's and sank Admiral Belgrano with them, so I reckon launchers are still compatible, the question is only how trained is personnel regarding the handling and use of these old model torpedoes.