The US Army is testing whether it could use reserve drill sergeants and other personnel to quickly expand basic training in the event that a major conflict suddenly needed training pipelines to produce far more soldiers. An experiment called Operation Wildcat Rising put dozens of Army Reserve drill sergeants into a single basic training cycle
Western militaries are learning lessons on modern warfare through the training they provide Ukrainian troops, but one NATO commander says they need to distinguish between what Ukraine does because it works and what it does because it didn’t have a better choice. Norway is leading Operation Legio, a multinational effort to train Ukrainian soldiers at Camp
Ukrainian forces are taking some of the ground robots designed for assault missions and repurposing them for logistics as they face shortages of these critical machines, unit commanders told Business Insider. Front-line logistics have become increasingly difficult in Ukraine as drones constantly monitor the battlefield. Supply runs can be deadly for soldiers, so a growing
The top US military commander in the Middle East has said mental health is a “priority” on the warship USS Lincoln, following reports of difficult conditions on board the long-deployed ship. After visiting the vessel on Saturday, Adm Brad Cooper said it had “among the lowest number of cases related to mental health” out of
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the country’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. His dismissal comes just days after the dismissal of popular Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, a move that sparked street protests across the country. Initial rumors that the end of Fedorov’s tenure was related to a conflict between the two men were soon confirmed. Fedorov, 35,