By Steven Cummings, Jeff Cummings, John Kivelin, John Spencer & Scott Cuomo, War on the Rocks: “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, and resiliency of our Nation's ground close-combat formations.””
By Keith Nightingale, Task & Purpose: “The position of squad leader is the least experienced and the most junior of all infantry positions. Yet, it often is the most important on the field of battle as well as the least capable of supervision.”