{"id":45700,"date":"2025-10-16T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/10\/16\/infantry-brigades-shift-to-mobile-brigades-in-army-transformation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:28:35","slug":"infantry-brigades-shift-to-mobile-brigades-in-army-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2025\/10\/16\/infantry-brigades-shift-to-mobile-brigades-in-army-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantry brigades shift to mobile brigades in Army transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the next two years, the U.S. Army will convert 25 Infantry Brigade Combat Teams into new formations known as Mobile Brigade Combat Teams as part of the service\u2019s \u201cTransforming in Contact\u201d initiative, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George said at a media roundtable in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the service\u2019s initiative to rapidly deliver new capabilities to operational units, three brigades are already undergoing the MBCT transition and their leaders recently discussed some of the changes at the Maneuver Warfighter Conference at Fort Benning, Georgia, in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key overhauls to the brigades include the addition of a multifunctional reconnaissance company and a multipurpose company to bring fires and strike capability down to lower tactical levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s in part because experimentation with loitering munitions and drones at lower echelons is paying off in destroying targets. <\/p>\n\n\n\t