infantry
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Marine Silent Drill Platoon, which features two-dozen newly trained infantry Marines, and U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The once-familiar picture of a war fought with infantry at the front and dog-fights in the air has become increasingly obsolete.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
You could think of it as the drone warfare of diplomacy, which is, instead of sending infantry in the normal way to do it and shooting up howitzers, you’re trying different approaches.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Ten years later he gained prominence when footage went viral showing his infantry fighting vehicle smashing through a makeshift barricade.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
There was no rush to get into the fighting; no one seemed to feel the need to get into the infantry, and only a few were talking about the Marines.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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Industrial culture hardly represented the subcontinent, where infantries of workmen, captured in archival film footage, lugged baskets of construction material for a building designed to look machined.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2019
The Romans," says Napoleon in his Memoirs, "had two infantries; the first, lightly armed, was provided with a missile weapon; the second, heavily armed, bore a short sword.
The soldiers, who deserve no little credit for their work, are members of the Twenty-eighth and the Tenth infantries.
From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Paul T. (Paul Thomas) Gilbert
All other things being equal, both infantries suffer the same losses in the artillery duel.
From Battle Studies by Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq
The two infantries were contending; gray Russian lines in the bottom land and already advancing up the slopes.
From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort
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