Throughout the sanguine annals of military history, very few truths have endured. However, one comes close: Advances in ...

General George S. Patton reminds us that a good plan, violently executed today is better than a perfect plan next week. Doctrine agrees. Field Manual 5-0, Planning and Orders Production clearly states ...

Russian occupying forces have long used highways like the M14 to drive to Crimea. Trucks flowed along the highway, beyond the ...

Throughout the sanguine annals of military history, very few truths have endured. However, one ...

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This slogan is among the Army’s favorites, yet its application at the operational level remains uneven. Brigade combat teams rotate through combat training centers, maneuvering largely in isolation ...

For as long as humans have waged war, controlling the high ground has meant controlling the fight. From ancient hilltop fortresses to the elevated positions that dictated victory in modern battles, ...

The US Army has reevaluated the international threat landscape and responded by committing to the doctrine of Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). The evolution of the MDO concept resulted in the recent ...

In 1981, the Army created the National Training Center and gave it a critical task: to prepare units to “win the first fight.” Central to that task is an OPFOR—the opposition force—that presents ...

It was 1969, during Capt. Kern’s second tour of Vietnam. His fuel logistics hassles were even worse than those he faced his first time in the country when he was a cavalry platoon leader. During that ...

The United States invests billions of dollars in advanced weapons. And yet it could still be unable to generate combat power at the rate a campaign requires—because of low-visibility frailties in the ...