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Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) execute a wet gap crossing with the 502nd Multi-Role Bridge Company, 19th Engineering Battalion on Fort Knox on April 28, 2022.
Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) execute a wet gap crossing with the 502nd Multi-Role Bridge Company, 19th Engineering Battalion on Fort Knox on April 28, 2022.

Staff Sgt. Michael Eaddy/US Army

  • The US Army lacks the equipment and experience to successfully attack across a river.
  • These capabilities have atrophied and need an overhaul, an Army major argued.
  • River crossings are dangerous and only getting more difficult.

Assaulting across a river is among the most dangerous military operations. Yet if the US Army went to war tomorrow, it would lack the equipment, doctrine and experience to launch an attack across a defended river, according to one Army engineer.

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Military & Defense, River, the-us-army, bridge, mildef-freelance
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The US Army isn't ready to attack across rivers