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POWIDZ, Poland - In the crucible of modern high intensity conflict, a mechanized division’s greatest strength, its heavy ...

This video tells the story of how one American rifle transformed infantry combat in World War II. It follows U.S. soldiers ...

Marines with 1st Battalion, 2d Marine Regiment (1/2), 2d Marine Division, prepare to board MV-22B Ospreys at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, April 23, 2022. 1/2 is tasked as the division's experimental ...

She is the first woman to pass the Marines' grueling infantry officer course. — -- For the first time in its nearly 250-year history, the Marine Corps has a female infantry officer. The woman, ...

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

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Marine Corps leaders have their eyes on the kind of combat that a war against an adversary such as China or Russia could bring, and they are training their troops to be prepared ...

Captain Kristen Griest is also one of the first women to complete Ranger School. — -- Already a trailblazer, Army Captain Kristen Griest became the Army’s first female infantry officer when, on ...

Retired Marine general and former defense secretary Jim Mattis is well known for his extensive reading lists, encompassing everything from “The Guns of August” to Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations.” But ...

The Close Combat Lethality Task Force could radically change the lives of infantry and ground combat troops across the services. It aims to transform recruitment, retention, training and equipment.

The U.S. Army is refining a plan to extend by two months the service's 14-week infantry one station unit training, or OSUT, so young grunts arrive at their first unit more combat-ready than ever ...

Since the firearm’s creation, firepower has aggregated at increasingly lower echelons in armies with each century, allowing smaller number of soldiers to dominate larger amounts of terrain and inflict ...