For most soldiers, there’d be nothing to do but sit and wait. For the 101st’s Multi-Functional Reconnaissance Company, it was an opportunity to test their gear. Within minutes, a soldier had powered up the Bal Chatri, a hand-held drone detector that was previously only given to...
Indeed, most if not all of the information in The Soldier and Squad in Night Combat will still be of use to the modern infantryman, night vision goggles and GPS devices notwithstanding. I have spent more than my fair share of time trying to move as a squad or platoon in complete ...
There’s a great line in Black Hawk Down, where a soldier asks how long it will take to fix a helicopter? “Five minutes.” “Nothing takes five minutes.” But does it really matter? Five years or fifteen is a drop in the bucket for radical changes that will remake the world....
Scarlett Johansson plays the Major, a cyber-enhanced soldier, in "Ghost in the Shell," hitting theaters on March 31, 2017. (Image credit: Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures) Watch enough science fiction movies and you'll probably come to the conclusion that humans are living on ...