Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Russian strategist has argued that infantry weapons such as mortars and machine guns are obsolete. He said he believed drones ...

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. […] ...

Infantry dominance resulted from technology that gave foot soldiers the ability to neutralize cavalry, armor, aircraft and fortifications without support. Portable anti-tank weapons like the RPG and ...

Infantry once relied on numbers to solve uncertainty. When soldiers could not see or hit targets precisely, the answer was ...