Warfare in the post-9/11 period is primarily infantry-focused, with ground troops taking part in small-unit actions against insurgents and guerrillas. Fought on a wide variety of terrain, from arid ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: It’s a special round for special forces. The sidearm carried by the Russian military could soon be far more lethal, as work is underway on a new round to replace the ...

Well, this is terrifying. As if the U.S. Department of Defense’s research into robotic pack animals wasn’t scary enough, it’s been revealed that a series of tests in February have made unnerving ...

Palo Alto’s arsenal of military equipment includes shotguns, rifles and flash-bang grenades and Sage launchers that fire rubber bullets. So far this year, however, the local Police Department has not ...

A modular ammunition transfer point is established at an isolated forward operating base and run by an ammunition supply section. A seasoned staff sergeant, 89B, and a newly appointed warrant officer, ...

US military dominance is fraying, as challengers develop means to counter to US material advantages. In response, the military seems to be leaning toward more closely integrating nuclear weapons into ...

In “Bullets Not Ballots,” Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning “hearts and minds” is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom ...

One of the toughest lessons for Western military instructors to teach Ukrainian soldiers has been fire discipline — holding fire and conserving ammunition instead of unloading relentlessly at Russian ...

SOS is widely recognized as the universal distress signal, but contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t stand for anything. When it was introduced in the early 20th century, SOS was simply a Morse code ...