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This is what happens when "experts" don't keep up with current events.
Long, alarmist article written by a guy who has no idea about the Third Revolution in Military Affairs (3RMA).
I'll quote from it. https://warontherocks.com/2020/01/dont-go-too-crazy-marine-corps/
This is what happens when "experts" don't keep up with current events.
Long, alarmist article written by a guy who has no idea about the Third Revolution in Military Affairs (3RMA).
I'll quote from it. https://warontherocks.com/2020/01/dont-go-too-crazy-marine-corps/
First, I'll confirm that the Marines are getting rid of their tanks, their manned aviation, their law-enforcement units, and most heavy artillery.
This will happen over the next 10 years.
This will happen over the next 10 years.
The quotes:
"These changes would indeed prepare the Marine Corps for the great power conflicts, particularly in the Western Pacific, that strategists focus on. The problem is that great power wars are not what the United States has fought since the end of World War II."
"These changes would indeed prepare the Marine Corps for the great power conflicts, particularly in the Western Pacific, that strategists focus on. The problem is that great power wars are not what the United States has fought since the end of World War II."
"A Marine Corps that is custom-designed for distributed operations on islands in the Western Pacific will be poorly designed and poorly trained for the land campaigns it is most likely to fight."
That's really all you need to read.
This guy doesn't get it.
The Marine Corps are being reequipped and retrained for the new role.
All you have to do is read THIS:
This guy doesn't get it.
The Marine Corps are being reequipped and retrained for the new role.
All you have to do is read THIS:
"'We are fielding new capabilities that we don't have right now, so we will need Marines in specialties that we either don't have at all or we don't have nearly in the numbers that we're going to need,' the commandant said."
( @Twitter broke the thread! I am the most powerful person on Twitter. Some unwashed Beta male or unwashed tattooed woman with green hair is monitoring my every thread. I have my own minder!)
These changes aren't arbitrary.
"'Developing a force that incorporates emerging technologies and a significant change to force structure within our current resource constraints will require the Marine Corps to become smaller and remove legacy capabilities,' a news release announcing the changes states."
The new role of the Marines will be different from the tole of the army.
This is how we amalgamate our branches of service into one cohesive fighting force.
I know that tradition is important, but you can't sacrifice improvement in the name of tradition.
This is how we amalgamate our branches of service into one cohesive fighting force.
I know that tradition is important, but you can't sacrifice improvement in the name of tradition.
The Marines initially rejected the semiautomatic rifle because they sad that the bolt-action rifle was what Marines used, and a semiautomatic would waste ammunition.
Well into World War Two, the Marines still used the M1903 Springfield rifle of Would War One.
Well into World War Two, the Marines still used the M1903 Springfield rifle of Would War One.
As they transitioned, the Marines adopted some of the worst weapons ever forced on fighting men and women.
The M50 Reising submachine gun.
The M50 Reising submachine gun.
It simply couldn't function in the jungle.
After a week or so, you could scrape off the bluing--the protecting coating on the metal--with your thumbnail. It jammed constantly.
The men just thew it away.
After a week or so, you could scrape off the bluing--the protecting coating on the metal--with your thumbnail. It jammed constantly.
The men just thew it away.
The M1941 Johnson machine gun.
The Marines wanted a replacement for the Browning Automatic Rifle.
The Johnson simply fell apart in combat and was replaced by...the Browning Automatic Rifle.
The Marines wanted a replacement for the Browning Automatic Rifle.
The Johnson simply fell apart in combat and was replaced by...the Browning Automatic Rifle.
I understand tradition, but you can't let it make you refuse to improve.
The Marines will get weapons that no other branch of service will have.
The plan is to allow the Marines to operate in small, massively armed, virtually autonomous units all over the Pacific.
The Marines will get weapons that no other branch of service will have.
The plan is to allow the Marines to operate in small, massively armed, virtually autonomous units all over the Pacific.
They won't have tanks or heavy artillery because those weapons will be a DEFICIT in the new role.
The fact that we're making plans based on capabilities we don't yet have means that WE KNOW WE'LL GET THEM.
From our Arab allies.
Not the weapons themselves but the technology.
The fact that we're making plans based on capabilities we don't yet have means that WE KNOW WE'LL GET THEM.
From our Arab allies.
Not the weapons themselves but the technology.
We'll build the weapons ourselves.
The Marines will be calling down Rods From God.
The Marines will be calling down Rods From God.
We can't have a large, lumbering force with tanks and helicopter gunships.
I won't post the videos, but there are hours of aftermath footage from Iraq and Syria.
The most remarkable was Dead Hezbollah in Syria.
I won't post the videos, but there are hours of aftermath footage from Iraq and Syria.
The most remarkable was Dead Hezbollah in Syria.
An entire courtyard of men with the tops of their heads flattened.
Some kind of incomprehensibly powerful downward shock wave adjusted to dissipate at ear level.
Never seen anything like it.
Some kind of incomprehensibly powerful downward shock wave adjusted to dissipate at ear level.
Never seen anything like it.
An alleyway of dead terrorists with no visible wounds.
No blood, no broken bones. But dead.
The Iraqis whistling in wonder as the walking among them.
No blood, no broken bones. But dead.
The Iraqis whistling in wonder as the walking among them.
And.
A city block of dead terrorists with their heads reduced to bone.
It was instant, because they'd all dropped straight down. Nobody was horizontal. Most were in grotesque lotus positions.
A city block of dead terrorists with their heads reduced to bone.
It was instant, because they'd all dropped straight down. Nobody was horizontal. Most were in grotesque lotus positions.
That was the only time I ever saw Arab combatants dry heaving.
So the Marines are slated to become our first strategic commandos.
The current special-operations units will get much heavier firepower.
And the conventional forces will do "ground maneuver."
So the Marines are slated to become our first strategic commandos.
The current special-operations units will get much heavier firepower.
And the conventional forces will do "ground maneuver."
But don't forget:
NO MORE REGIME CHANGE.
NO MORE OCCUPATION.
It's neither possible nor desirable to carry out regime change in China.
Regime change by force is a failed strategy.
NO MORE REGIME CHANGE.
NO MORE OCCUPATION.
It's neither possible nor desirable to carry out regime change in China.
Regime change by force is a failed strategy.
The reason we haven't overthrown Assad or the Iranian mullahs is that we'd simply make the situation worse.
Japan and Germany will never forgive us for conquering and occupying them. I've spent a lot of time in both countries, and our relationship is not a true friendship.
Japan and Germany will never forgive us for conquering and occupying them. I've spent a lot of time in both countries, and our relationship is not a true friendship.
The Japanese and Germans will spend the rest of time trying to get he best of us.
We can't BLAME our progenitors. They fought wars within the context of the eras.
But this is a new era.
NO MORE REGIME CHANGE.
NO MORE OCCUPATION.
We can't BLAME our progenitors. They fought wars within the context of the eras.
But this is a new era.
NO MORE REGIME CHANGE.
NO MORE OCCUPATION.
We've learned that they don't work.
Therefore we need a new war-fighting strategy, and we're implementing it.
All will be well.
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Therefore we need a new war-fighting strategy, and we're implementing it.
All will be well.
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