Amphibious Operations from 1990-2009

Time for another look back at our recent history.  This time its courtesy of US Naval Institute's Blog via its articles on Amphibious Operations from 1990-1999 and Amphibious Operations from 2000-2009.

Spare me the critics that attempt to parse these actions with comparisons to World War II actions.  That is not the point.

The point is that the US military has only three forms of forcible entry.

1.  Airborne Assault.
2.  Heliborne Assault.
3.  Amphibious Assault.

In many ways these skill sets are unique to the United States.  Most of the world's Marine Corps have the ability to raid, not invade.  Most of the world's airborne forces are able to at best raid...but don't have the ability to hold on to seized ground long enough for other forces to relieve them ... I know of no Heliborne force outside of the US that has the ability to move more than a couple of companies worth of soldiers at a time.

Its a Marine centric blog but the need to maintain all three forms of forcible entry are obvious. Only those with a vested interests in the weakening of our nation would claim otherwise.