Infantry tactics often evolved to compensate for weapon failures rather than to exploit superior firepower. Unreliable automatic weapons like the Chauchat and early M16 forced troops to slow assaults ...

This rare footage captures a Malian infantry squad during intense live-fire exercises, showcasing how 11 soldiers coordinate in a mix of mounted and dismounted maneuvers with machine guns, RPGs, and ...

Small arms forced doctrine rewrites by exposing gaps between design intent and battlefield reality rather than through superior performance. Weapons created new infantry roles including assault troops ...

Over the past year, our battalion — 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team (MBCT), 25th Infantry Division — transitioned from an infantry brigade combat team to an MBCT ...

A squad from 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, won the 3rd Infantry Division Best Squad Competition on Fort Stewart, Georgia, May 18, 2023. The best squad ...

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 ...