infantry
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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
Ellie says she had been desperate to be an infantry soldier.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Luckily, the military already has tests: boot camp, infantry school and the job itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In a video which went viral, he commanded an infantry vehicle as it smashed through a makeshift barricade set up by pro-Moscow forces in the southern city of Mariupol.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Her husband had gone to Germany with an infantry division, and now she was struggling through the second day of a difficult labor.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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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.
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
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
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