Modern battlefields may be filled with drones, precision strikes, and advanced sensors, but wars are still decided by ...

Today, we are witnessing another military revolution, driven not by muskets but by machines. First-person view drones are changing the calculus of battle, placing surveillance and precision strikes in ...

Better combat performance. Higher quality operator-level maintenance. More focused infantrymen. These are some of the impacts that the Army’s armor chief, Brig. Gen. Mike Simmering, hopes that the ...

In his 2006 book, Passion of Command: The Moral Imperative for Leadership, U.S. Marine Corps Col B.P. McCoy states that “to take and conquer land, you must give brave men rifles and hand grenades.”(1) ...

FORT MOORE, Ga. — A grenade exploded off in the distance, launched from a small drone hovering just over a cluster of trees on a hilly live-fire range during training last week at the Army post. The ...

Russia is increasingly relying on large infantry assault tactics in Ukraine. One Russian milblogger said there was about to be a "real renaissance of infantry combat." Other milbloggers said the ...

Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Alexander Bolin, a rifleman with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, posts security during a squad competition at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat ...

Strategy is the focus of most of the modern military historians. Their driving assumption is that strategy is the ‘dog’ and tactics is the ‘tail.’ In other words, strategy shapes the course and ...

The need for IMTS arose after leaders observed that Career Management Field (CMF) 11 NCOs lacked institutional competencies to plan, prepare, execute, and assess direct fire training for their ...