Editing Infantry (section)

{{Short description|Military personnel who engage in ground combat}}
{{Redirect|Foot soldier|other uses of "foot soldier"|Foot soldier (disambiguation)}}
{{For-multi|1=the professional journal of the United States Army |2=Infantry (magazine) |3=the 1999 video game |4=Infantry (video game)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}}
{{text-source|date=August 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2017}}
[[File:CJEF joint training Exercise Wessex Storm 2020 MOD 45167425.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|[[French Army]] and [[British Army]] infantry during a [[military exercise]] in 2020]]
{{War}}
'''Infantry''' is a specialization of [[military personnel]] who engage in [[warfare]] [[combat]]. Infantry generally consists of [[light infantry]], [[irregular infantry]], [[heavy infantry]], [[mountain infantry]], [[motorized infantry]], [[mechanized infantry]], [[Airborne forces|airborne infantry]], [[Air assault|air assault infantry]], and [[Marines|naval infantry]]. Other types of infantry, such as [[line infantry]] and [[mounted infantry]], were once commonplace but fell out of favor in the 1800s with the invention of more accurate and powerful weapons.