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 ...

As militaries worldwide study the evolving conflict in Ukraine, many are racing to integrate battlefield innovations into ...

When we think back on military history, the focus tends to overwhelmingly skew towards things like weapons, leaders, and ...

Soldiers from the Maryland Army National Guard's 175th Infantry Regiment shared their expertise in ambush tactics with members of the Estonian Defence League in Rutja, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia. The ...

Spine title: Upton's infantry tactics : double and single rank. Later editions under title: Infantry tactics. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...

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 ...

Complete tactics, infantry rifle battalion; consisting of the entire new infantry field manual (FM 7-5) together with the tactical portions of new basic field manuals on individual infantry weapons ...

Infantry dominance resulted from technology that gave foot soldiers the ability to neutralize cavalry, armor, aircraft and fortifications without support. Portable anti-tank weapons like the RPG and ...

Soldiers load into an Infantry Squad Vehicle during a live fire exercise in Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. (Kevin Sterling Payne/U.S. Army) Over the next two years, the U.S. Army will convert 25 ...

While millions of Americans can name Western Front battles like Belleau Wood or the Meuse-Argonne, almost no one remembers the 332nd Infantry Regiment. These Ohio doughboys were the only American ...

Graphic showing the new French Army infantry battalion structure, which should be in place in all units by 2027. (Giles Ebbutt) The French Army has developed a new infantry battalion model in order to ...