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Welcome to the "What's Trending" page of the Infantry Journal. These articles provide current information on training, organization, weapons, equipment, tactics, and techniques and to provide a forum for progressive ideas. Dive in to sharpen your skills, master your craft, and ensure you're ready to win the fight, anytime, anywhere.

Producing Warriors: The Modern Army Combatives Program 2/28/2026

Army officers advocate for prioritizing the Modern Army Combatives Program, highlighting warrior development, low injury rates, minimal cost, and high training v...

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So, You're An Executive Officer—Now What? 12/31/2025

A practical guide for Army executive officers covering maintenance work order management, ESR navigation, logistics oversight, supply chain operations, financial...

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Book Reviews: Next War, Reimagining How We Fight 8/31/2024

A retired LTC reviews John Antal's Next War, praising its accessible breakdown of nine battlefield disrupters — from transparent battlespace to AI kill webs — an...

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Platoon FSCX as Enabler Integration Training within IWTS — A Technique 6/19/2024

The Army Integrated Weapons Training Strategy (IWTS) provides a comprehensive framework for progressive, multi-echelon readiness. This site examines how the 1st...

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The Army Needs to Quickly Adapt to Tactical Drone Warfare 6/19/2024

A Field Artillery major draws on Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh lessons to propose modernizing Army IBCTs with tactical drones — replacing the RQ-7 Shadow with loi...

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Taking Your Operational Performance ‘To the Limit’ 8/31/2024

A Stryker battalion S-3 details how 5-20 IN maximized NTC's leader training program by digitizing seven key fight products across CPCE, JBC-P, ShareDrive, and Sh...

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Intelligence Challenges Under the C2 Fix Construct 12/17/2025

CW2 Thompson examines brigade S-2 intelligence challenges under the C2 Fix construct, offering lessons from Operation Lethal Eagle 24.1 on staffing, UAS integrat...

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To Build Survivability: Troop the Line 6/26/2025

To build survivability, leaders at echelon cannot differ in their understanding of what trooping the line means. When enforced daily, standardization across eche...

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Techniques for Mortar Ammunition Planning 8/31/2024

A division plans officer tackles three mortar ammunition planning gaps — haul capacity by formation type, effects-based round apportionment, and cross-functional...

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International Exercises Highlight Division’s Unique Capabilities 6/30/2025

Although 11th Airborne Division Soldiers and Paratroopers proudly wear the Arctic Tab, they remain ready to operate in any environment. The division both demonst...

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The 11th Airborne Division: A Unique History, Purpose, and Future 6/30/2025

As the Army’s only Arctic division and its only airborne division in the Indo-Pacific, the Soldiers and Paratroopers of the 11th Airborne Division pioneer innova...

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Installing a Play: A Framework for Platoon Live-Fire Certification 6/26/2025

Training methodology for conducting platoon live-fire exercises using transparent communication and performance measurement rather than traditional testing appro...

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The Importance of Measuring Mid-Air Winds for Airborne Operations 8/31/2024

Analysis of the need to measure and account for mid-air winds during military static line airborne operations to improve point of impact accuracy, reduce paratro...

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Scouts Vs Snipers: Combining the Craft to Survive LSCO 2/16/2025

Analysis of current organizational and training challenges facing U.S. Army sniper squads and recommendations for restructuring sniper programs to improve effect...

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Applied History — Tips for Training Troops 6/28/2024

Lt Col M.W. Whitchurch provides practical methods for incorporating military history study into unit training, responding to MAJ Shameek De Lancey's earlier arti...

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