Thursday, July 01, 2010

HNLMS Johan de Witt's landing craft in action off the coast of Somalia.

GvG of Information Dissemination provided this vid.  I wonder if this is the future for the Marine Corps.  Yes, I know its a return to our naval roots but so is being Shock Troops.  I fear that this new operating doctrine might cause us to lose that part of our heritage.

As a side note how are we going to justify the EFV if our new operating doctrine is for Distributed Operations with the Company as the smallest unit of maneuver, a move to make our units vehicle independent and for us to start having detachments aboard even frigate sized ships?  How do we justify any of the weapon systems coming down the pike?  CH-53E?  Why?  We operate in penny packets.  More M-777?  Why not just disband artillery?  The more I read of this new doctrine (and I haven't finished it yet) the more it leaves me scratching my head. Just my two cents.

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