F-35B Lightning IIs on the amphibious assault ship USS America. US Marine Corps/Cpl. Mark A. Lowe II
Business Insider: The top Marine officer thinks the Corps needs to be more unpredictable and that it needs the 'Lightning carrier' to do it
The Marine Corps wants to overhaul its force to prepare to be more dispersed and more flexible to deter and, if need be, take on China's growing military in the Pacific.
"China has moved out to sea, and they have long-range weapons and a lot of them," Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger said on February 11 at an Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition event on Capitol Hill.
"Those two things have changed the game," Berger added. "Take those away, in other words, we could keep operating with dominance everywhere we wanted to, as we have. We cannot do that. We can't get stuck in old things. We are being challenged everywhere."
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