ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

The Close Combat Lethality Task Force created by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is “pursuing promising leads,” says the senior Army enlisted representative to the group.

A new Pentagon effort to improve lethality and performance of close combat units “is one of the most important issues any of us have ever undertaken,” said Undersecretary of Defense Robert Wilkie during a discussion hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare.

A new Institute of Land Warfare research paper focuses on political, strategic and moral implications of a Defense Department task force dedicated to making front line warfighters more lethal.