Expeditionary Force 21 is close to ending amphibious assault.

via Breaking Defense.

With current technology, “a few good men” can get ashore from more than 65 miles out. That’s enough Marines to rescue some US citizens, reinforce an embassy, or hit a key target and get out, but not enough to seize and hold ground. It would be less an amphibious assault and “more of a raid,” King told me.
Putting this first small force ashore doesn’t necessarily require blowing holes in the enemy’s layered defenses, just disrupting it at key times and places through stealth airstrikes or cyber attack. “[E.g.] for this eight-hour window, I can fly this route — I don’t need to keep it open all day, I need to create a window of opportunity to put that company ashore,” King said. “Once they’re ashore, they’ll wreak havoc.”
The force would probably a single company of a hundred-plus Marines slipping ashore from a boat or flying in on a V-22 aircraft. But while the Marines are developing “internally transportable vehicles” that can fit inside a V-22, most of the Marines in such a company-sized force would still have to walk, which limits both their maneuvers and their ability to carry heavy weapons.
“65 to 100 miles out….there’s no way we do an entire amphibious landing from that type of distance,” Brig. Gen. Mullen told the Sea-Air-Space conference when I raised the question. “It’s not possible, it’s not feasible, we can’t go do a build-up at an operationally relevant pace.”

I've tried to be diplomatic but that's not working so a little wall to wall counseling is in order.

What the fuck is HQMC and the little group of pussy generals thinking????

They keep talking about the anti-access threat.  They continuously talk about ships being vulnerable to anti-ship missiles and act as if the MV-22 is bullet proof.

Its not.

Its vulnerable to small arms fire, RPGs, and Man Pads.  If the enemy has the architecture to keep our ships at bay then it will also have the resources necessary to make MV-22 scrap metal.

THEY AREN'T THINKING ANYMORE.  THEY'RE SIMPLY PUSHING BULLSHIT CONCEPTS.

We need new leadership to save the Marine Corps.  Not from the enemy but from substandard leaders.