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While it makes clear choices and trade-offs, the design maintains the service’s noted versatility, a valued force design principle. Thus, this proposal is both strategy-driven and risk-informed. https://warontherocks.com/2020/04/building-a-marine-corps-for-every-contingency-clime-and-place/
Fantastic contribution by TX Hammes - a great scholar. This line caught my eye: “For those concerned about contingencies, it is important to note the Marine Corps will still have more infantry battalions on active duty than it has deployed into combat at any one time since WWII.”
Is it unreasonable to think the this is perhaps a problem? Is the infantry battalion the ideal instrument of choice for competition in the contact and blunt layers? Must we be constrained to what we have currently (Inf Bn) or should we be building what we need (Littoral Teams)?
