Recent global conflict again has shown that the ability to sustain the warfighter with firepower is critical to the U.S. Army’s ability to fight and win. U.S. Army Materiel Command has been sharpening the service’s organic industrial base through new initiatives aimed at being ready to answer when...

Since 2016, coinciding with operations against the Islamic State group, defense leaders have characterized drones, especially small unmanned aircraft systems, as a significant threat to U.S. military personnel. Small unmanned aircraft systems, for example, are rampant in the U.S. Central Command...

The Holistic Health and Fitness system is a soldier-centered, people first program designed to optimize soldier lethality. It represents a cultural shift from the industrial-scale approach of physical and nonphysical readiness of the past to one of precision and unit customization. As the U.S. Army...

The U.S. Army is failing its youngest and most promising scholars by forcing them to choose between academic excellence or a solid foundation in the service. Senior cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and ROTC, who compete for prestigious scholarships such as Rhodes...

Cautiously, the lead squad emerges from concealed positions along wooded high ground above the mock village. A man wearing civilian clothes and a frightened look approaches the wary point man as if motioning for help. Suddenly, a muzzle flash bursts from a second-story window in the village. The...

In early 2022, I found myself in the Eisenhower Auditorium at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, captivated as then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville shared his philosophy of “People First” with the members of my Battalion and Brigade Pre-Command Course. People First was all about emphasizing the U.S...

At 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany’s dictator, Adolf Hitler, unleashed a massive offensive against Allied armies on the Western Front in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg. Some 250,000 German troops deployed in Belgium against a weakly held U.S. Army front. The heaviest blow...