Spanish Infantry

Present and future

Soldier from the “Pirineos” Battalion I/64 in the province of Bagdhis, in Afghanistan, controlling the terrain during a CIMIC operation. Author - Luis Hermo Cintas

“The infantry is the main weapon of combat, and to its advantage, therefore, all the others must act.” This is how the infantry was defined in the 1983 weapons use doctrine, and not all the technological changes or doctrines designed throughout the multitude of influence wars within the changing strategic map of the last quarter of a century have achieved change this maxim.

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