U.S. Marines to Return to Amphibious Operations
The title of the Navy Times article is Amphibious ops to become default mode for MEUs, but the import is much larger than that. It’s more than just about MEUs. The Commandant wants to return to...
View ArticleMarine Corps Commandant on DADT and Expeditionary Warfare
Marine Corps Commandant Conway opposes the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT). Spencer Ackerman weighs in with the point that “Conway is implicitly assuming that the interests of the Corps and the...
View ArticleAir Superiority and Expeditionary Warfare
The U.S. Marines brass is happy about the recent performance of the F-35. Well, no one can say the Lockheed JSF team hasn’t had a good week. First came the hover and short takeoff and short landing....
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SECDEF Gates on the Navy and Marines
Before we address the issue of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ position on the sea services, let’s debunk the mythical notion that either the military or the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan is...
View ArticleMarine Corps Prepares for Budget Cuts
When it comes to defense spending generally, I have pointed out before that the percentage of defense budget versus GDP has shrunk over time for the U.S. The notion of defense spending that is out of...
View ArticleThe New Marine Corps Commandant?
From Greg Jaffe at The Washington Post: In a major break with tradition, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is planning to recommend that the president select a career aviator as the next commandant of...
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Sustainable Defense Task Force
To be fair concerning the brief things I am about to say (and quote), you may go directly to the Sustainable Defense Task Force Report and read the analysis and recommendations yourself. For now, the...
View ArticleG-RAMM, the EFV and the Fundamental Paradox of the Marine Corps Vision
The U.S. Marine Corps is retooling itself after years of land battle in Iraq and Afghanistan. They want to go back to their sea-based roots with the Navy. Undersecretary Bob Work has made a case for...
View ArticleMarines Posture Over Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
The Orange County Register has an interesting article on the next U.S. Marine Corps installment of their defense of the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV). CAMP PENDLETON – On a cool day in late...
View ArticleThe Future of the Marine Corps
Greg Grant writing at DefenseTech weighs in on a subject near to our hearts. As I read the news reports, and this post at Tom Rick’s blog on the future of the Marine Corps, I recalled a recent...
View ArticleThe Best Way to Ensure That the Marines Become Irrelevant
From National Defense Magazine, another silly article on massive amphibious assault landings in the 21st century (only part reproduced below). While many pundits (Editorial comment: And to whom might...
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Will the U.S. Marine Corps Become A Second Land Army?
The U.S. Marines are allegedly trying not to become a second land army by focusing on sea-based forcible entry via the EFV. But recall the view expressed here at TCJ? The Orange County Register shows...
View ArticleMarine Corps to Secretary Gates: We’re Relevant!
From NPR: The “Soldiers of the Sea” have been fighting on land for a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan.The Corps’ amphibious troop carrier has just been canceled; its new fighter jet was postponed. And...
View ArticleConcerning Declarations Of War And Tech Ninjas
For more than a decade now we have been engaged in what we have called a global war on terror, which is an awful name for it since we cannot war against a tactic. We have actually been engaged in a...
View ArticleU.S. Marine Amphibious Assault On America
From Breitbart: With beach landings, 25 naval ships and an air assault, the United States and eight other countries are staging a major amphibious exercise on the US East Coast this week, fighting a...
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