The Vietnam War exposed the limits of traditional military doctrine in ways few conflicts before it had. Incredibly dense terrain, guerrilla tactics, and a prolonged fight forced rapid adaptation on ...

A Russian strategist has argued that infantry weapons such as mortars and machine guns are obsolete. He said he believed drones would replace them, making infantry units smaller and lighter. Light ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: While everyone oohs and aahs over nuclear weapons, submarines and stealth fighters, modern wars usually involve infantries on the ground—and they need guns. Yet there ...

In April, the Army unveiled a new model of its mainstay armored vehicle: the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), which both transports infantry and supports them in combat using a rapid-firing ...

KNDS, a European defense contractor, has unveiled a new tank with a bewildering number of guns. EMBT ADT 140 mounts not one, but three guns—each optimized to handle a different kind of threat. The ...

As military spending skyrockets and the push is on for new weapons to go quickly from the lab to the fleet, military leaders, defense contractors, innovators and investors will gather Dec. 16 in ...