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The Chief of the Army Staff is pleased to announce the Chief of Staff of the Army’s 2025 Articles of the Year!

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The Chief of Staff of the Army is pleased to announce the Harding Project's 2025 Articles of the Year!

The Chief of Staff of the Army, General George, selected four Articles of the Year from among 427 Branch journal articles published through the Line of Departure website. These include articles from journals managed by Army Branches and Centers of Excellence, such as Infantry, NCO Journal, Special Warfare Journal, Pulse of Army Medicine, Army Sustainment, and others.

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Banner image for Getting Small: Institutionalizing Split-Team Operations for Large Scale Combat Operations. A Soldier assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) prepares his night vision lens prior to a weapons validation exercise at Fort Johnson, La., Apr. 26, 2025. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Oscar Reyes.)

Nov. 24, 2025

Getting Small: Institutionalizing Split-Team Operations for Large Scale Combat Operations

Modern battlefields are characterized by intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)-saturated and electronic warfare (EW)-contested environments. Large formations are vulnerable to drone swarms, rapid counter-battery fire, and automated targeting, making agility, dispersion, deception, and timely action critical for survival. Special Forces (SF) employ these necessary characteristics of modern warfare through split-team operations – dividing into small, independent elements, even down to singleton operators – to achieve stealth, autonomy, seamless integration with joint fire support, and increased operational coverage.

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