While the gameplay is mostly identical to the preceding games, all the intensity of the Close Combat system remains in Invasion Normandy. The Close Combat series has been in development just about as ...

The Close Combat Lethality Task Force could radically change the lives of infantry and ground combat troops across the services. It aims to transform recruitment, retention, training and equipment.

In less than a year, a new task force formed at the direction of the Pentagon’s most senior leaders is pushing key equipment programs and putting personnel policies under a microscope — all to take ...

The Army can raise the bar on minimum fitness standards for close-combat jobs and also must establish clear consequences for soldiers who fall short, according to the recommendations from a new study ...

Last month, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis directed the establishment of a Close Combat Lethality Task Force. The task force’s mission is to improve the “combat preparedness, lethality, survivability ...

Since 1945, U.S. policymakers have sent the nation’s close combat personnel into battle in every decade, including the past 17 years without interruption. In these conflicts, America’s infantrymen ...

WASHINGTON -- While our current combat fleet is composed of very capable vehicles, these vehicles have been in the inventory for decades and their ability to overmatch peer capabilities in close ...

Close Combat is a competent squad-based shooter that offers a fun cooperative mode and an artificial intelligence that is at times quite impressive and at other times completely boneheaded. Recent ...

The Close Combat series, first launched in 1996, is getting a new release this year. Close Combat: The Bloody First, which has languished in development limbo since 2014, will be released sometime in ...

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Kiss your beloved pizza MRE goodbye, service members: the Defense Department is working on a brand new lightweight combat ration designed to keep troops fueled up while inevitably ruining your bowels ...

There was a moment during my first playthrough of Close Combat: The Bloody First when it felt like everything was going wrong. It wasn’t simply that my strategy wasn’t working, or even that I had made ...