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In justice to McNair, though, it was probably easier to equip and train an Army of almost 100 divisions by cranking out standard trianglar infantry and armor divisions cookie-cutter style rather than...

Perhaps a better way of distinguishing the tooth from the tail is to call them the combat arms and the support arms. The latter category is further subdivided into combat support branches and combat...

It's been 25 years since I was in the Army so my observations may be a bit out of date, but as I saw it the role of command sergeants major at battalion level and higher in the U.S. Army was rather...

Can anyone here tell which guy is the Marine in this photo? :o

From The Times, London, March 30, 2010:



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Although this engagement need not have happened, I couldn't blame the recipients of these letters of reprimand if they feel cynical. It's a bit like saying after the fact that instead of putting up...

Jon, it ain't rocket science, but the engagements at COP Keating and Wanat as well as the photos Ken White posted above show that some of these fortifications leave a lot to be desired. By the way,...

You're right, Wilf, but as I said a bit earlier in the thread defensive operations seem to go against the American way of war. Field fortification is a relatively neglected subject outside of combat...

Jon, my posting of that image was a bit of horsing around on my part--it's Fort Monroe, Virginia, the current headquarters of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. The old fort was designed...

When I look at the image in the link below I can't imagine why TRADOC would be averse to the idea of presenting more instruction on the construction of field fortifications. If I recall correctly...

The construction of field fortifications might well be one of those subjects that goes against the grain of the American way of warfare, with our preference for offensive operations to achieve...

Do infantry lieutenants get any training on on the basic principles of the design of field fortifications during their Basic Course? How about infantry NCOs during their NCOES? I don't remember any...

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