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 ...

When we think back on military history, the focus tends to overwhelmingly skew towards things like weapons, leaders, and decisive battles. The atomic bomb, the invention of the battle tank, and the ...

The methods pioneered by German stormtroopers became the foundation of modern small unit tactics and special forces doctrine. Their emphasis on squad-level initiative, combined arms integration, ...

Germany’s StG 44 created the assault rifle category in 1944. Nearly every modern service rifle traces its conceptual roots to this weapon. The AK-47’s reliability and simplicity made it the most ...

Iran appears to be targeting what it views as American vulnerabilities, including air defenses meant to guard troops and assets in the region.