Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger at Twentynine Palms.
Breaking Defense: Historic Marine Plan to Reinvent The Corps EXCLUSIVE
The document outlines an evolving effort to stand up a series of small, agile units tasked with air defense, anti-ship and submarine warfare, and seizing, holding and resupplying ad hoc bases to support an island-hopping campaign in the Pacific.
WASHINGTON: An ambitious new Marine Corps planning document outlines historic changes in how the service plans to equip, organize, and train over the next decade to meet the challenges of Chinese and Russian competition, ushering in changes not seen since the 1920s.
The unreleased 180-page document is meant as a first iteration of an effort to create a series of small, agile units tasked with air defense, anti-ship and submarine warfare, and seizing, holding and resupplying small temporary bases as part of an island-hopping campaign in the Pacific.
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Sounds like they want to be the marine version of the rangers. In a way it's a plan to get back to their 1940's roots.
ReplyDeleteMight as well absorb them back into the navy. Makes sense.
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