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Infantry Summer 2026

Table of Contents

Not for the Timid or Entitled: How Panama's Crucible is Yet Again Testing Soldiers' Mettle
By COL Keith W. Benedict and CPT Christian M. Hert
Revitalizing the Army's Jungle Edge: Hawaii's JOTC Set the Standard for Modern Jungle Warfare
By 1LT Michael Bonifazio and LTC Charles A. Staab
No Substitute for Boots on the Ground: An Infantry Battalion’s Value Proposition for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
By MAJ Zackery R. Spear
Closing the Gap: Forging Joint Readiness Through Amphibious Operations
By CPT Will Lloyd
Boots, Not Bandwidth: The Case for Dismount-Led Intelligence in the Jungle
By MAJ Matthew A. Hughes, MAJ Victor Modesto De Sousa, Brazilian Army, MSG Anthony Hernandez, WO1 Alexander Terrenzio
Ready for the Pacific: Intelligence Lessons from the Falklands Conflict
By LTC George J. Fust
RSLC, MFRCs, and Modernizing Recon
By CPT Patrick Fullam
Shaping the Deep Fight: MFRC Lessons Learned at Saber Junction 25
By CPT Aviel Lee, CPT Andrew Carter, 1SG Ryan Anderson, 1LT Jonathan Hyun
Institutional Options for Teaching and Training R&S
By CPT Francis Ambrogio
How a Strike Platoon Fights: Early Observations
By CPT Matthew Stanford and 1LT Cammack Shepler
Deep Reconnaissance: The Need for Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance in LSCO
By 1SG Kyle C. Ward
Leveraging Space-Based ISR within MBCTs
By CPT Jonathan Fearing
Calling Infantry Captains!
By LTC James I. Vansandt III
Combat Water Survival: Critical Training for Large-Scale Combat Operations
By CPT Travis B. Smith and 1LT Samuel K. Wishon
Where We Stand: Position-Centric vs Momentum-Centric Leaders
By CPT Nikolas Baldwin
The Anatomy of a Defense that Blackhorse Could Not Break
By Dr. COL Ed Arntson, CPT Tyler Arnold, LTC Robert Graves, LTC Russ Grigsby, and LTC John Nimmons
The Importance of NCOs in the Planning Process
By CSM Jesse J. Clark