EFV raw video. The info war is on.

So the SecDef wants to fire a shot across the Marine Corps bow by having a commission take a look at the Marines roles and missions?

Yeah right!

Who in the Congress has the balls to go head to head with the USMC?

Does the White House really want the battle?

The answer to the first is no one and to the second...are you crazy!

So having properly evaluated the enemies strength on this subject the power that be have ignored the sound of the blast and are moving forward with a head on assault on the SecDef's position.  Besides, he fired his rounds in haste...his tactics are confused (he did after all signal that he's going to retire within a year) and the only real obstacle is the bean counters in OMB.

Oh and there is one more danger.  Remember the LVTP-5?  That was the last amphibian that was optimized toward the water mission against evidence that most missions would be focused on land.  It was a failure in Vietnam...maybe we should just get BAE or General Dynamics or Lockheed Martin to modernize the AAV-7---radically modernize it.