FORT IRWIN, Calif. — Troopers from the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, known as “Black Jack,” recently concluded National Training Center Rotation 26-02, the Army’s first ...

The U.S. Army’s training sites, such as the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, shown here, don’t replicate the terrain that the Army is most likely to fight on, warns a U.S. Army ...

There are no easy days in the desert of the National Training Center (NTC), es­pecially for commanders. The NTC’s Box is an unforgiving environment that tests our ability to fight and lead through ...

The US Army is pitting ideas born in Washington against battlefield realities, with the outcomes shaping how future wars will be fought. Recent exercises at the National Training Center in California ...