Last year, an idea began percolating among some Marine infantry officers: How could they draft principles and procedures for if the Marines found themselves in a conflict similar to the one now raging ...

The Marine Corps is honing its plans for smaller, tech-heavy infantry battalions through two years of experimentation intended to reveal the best mix of people and capabilities for the distributed ...

The Marine Corps will reconfigure all of its infantry battalions and shrink them from roughly 900 to just over 800 Marines by this fall as part of the service’s ongoing Force Design modernization ...

A US Marine with the 3rd Marine Division participates in a squad attack phase of the 3rd Marine Division Squad Competition at the Jungle Warfare Training Center at Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, in ...

On March 28, 1990, publisher Houghton Mifflin released Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried.” Four months later, on August 2, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Two months after that, my mother, ever a careful ...

Nearly 300 female Marines have moved into combat-arms jobs that were, up until less than five years ago, previously open only to men. But only one female officer has led a Marine infantry platoon so ...

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric M. Smith has released his commandant's guidance. (Cpl. Alexander Lesko/Marine Corps) A year into his tenure as the top Marine, Commandant Gen. Eric Smith has released ...

Marines practice basic marksmanship at Camp Geiger, North Carolina. (Sgt. Tyler L. Main/Marine Corps) Marine 1st Lt. Marina Hierl made national headlines in 2017 when she became the first woman to ...

Marine 1st Lt. Marina Hierl made national headlines in 2017 when she became the first woman to graduate the Marine Corps' Infantry Officer Course in Quantico, Virginia, earning the 0302 Infantry ...

A year into his tenure as the top Marine, Commandant Gen. Eric Smith has released his planning guidance to the Corps. Such documents are used by the top Marine to outline his priorities for the force ...