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Over the past decade, the Army has taken the multidomain task force from whiteboard concept to...
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The US Army is rediscovering the division as the warfighting formation. During the post-9/11 wars...
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You step off in the dark, and you can feel it before anyone says a word. Two of your platoon’s...
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