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Sidenote: If you were to do an assessment of every Marine Corps/Naval Infantry worldwide, you would find that the USMC is the most technologically advanced, powerful and thanks to the US Navy most agile found. This is what makes the move toward these Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response Units based on the MV-22 so dangerous. It takes the USMC in the wrong direction and places it on par with the other forces it might face. Instead of a powerful, combined armed force arriving from the sea, you would instead have a Company of Marines arriving by air, supported by air, without the firepower found in a traditional Marine formation.
Sidenote: If you were to do an assessment of every Marine Corps/Naval Infantry worldwide, you would find that the USMC is the most technologically advanced, powerful and thanks to the US Navy most agile found. This is what makes the move toward these Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response Units based on the MV-22 so dangerous. It takes the USMC in the wrong direction and places it on par with the other forces it might face. Instead of a powerful, combined armed force arriving from the sea, you would instead have a Company of Marines arriving by air, supported by air, without the firepower found in a traditional Marine formation.
In short words, Marines start to look like Paratroopers.
ReplyDeleteexactly with a twist. instead of being the most capable Marine Corps on the planet we start looking like the other, weaker (and i say that with no ill will) Marines/Naval Infantry forces that are desperately trying to get what we already have.
Deleteits just a bad move .
Oh it is a definitely a bad move. Marines were born in sea, they are the naval mechanized infantry, they fight from sea, they move by sea. If they will be redesign to more and more airmobile unit what will left from that legacy ?
DeleteIn WWII there was an Marines paratroopers unit, experiment that meet with stiff resistance from every part of corps. It's like Déjà vu.
That btr-90 looks good, if it could handle the hard surf better it would be a damn awsome amphibious assault vehicle
ReplyDeleteThe Marine Corps is the MAGTF and the MAGTF is the Marine Corps, individual units are weak by themselves, the numbers just are not there, the when the ACE and LCE focus their efforts on supporting the GCE, we can take on units much larger than ourselves. We are not the Army, we win battles, let the army win the war.
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