Is Storming The Beaches A Thing Of The Past For The U.S. Marines?

A landing craft skims the coastline as Marines train in a large-scale amphibious exercise at Camp Pendleton in June. (Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times / June 2, 2010)

U.S. Rethinks A Marine Corps Specialty: Storming Beaches -- L.A. Times

During an amphibious assault exercise at Camp Pendleton, Marines appear rusty. They haven't made such a landing since the Korean War — and some leaders wonder whether they will ever do it again.

Reporting from Camp Pendleton and Washington — On a stretch of clean, white Southern California beach, thousands of young Marines this month charged forward from the sea, leaping from helicopters and landing craft, echoing the exercises conducted decades before when Marines trained for Iwo Jima and Inchon.

It was the largest and most complex amphibious exercise since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It also could be one of the last.

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My Comment: Advancements in military technology has always reshaped and redefined battlefields. Storming a beach is not a viable operational tactic in today's world.