Monday, April 21, 2014

Russian combined Airborne & Amphibious Assault...

All photos via English Russia.

I've said it before and will say it again.  The USMC and US Army are missing an opportunity to provide so much deterrence to any aggressive action by China in the Pacific that its mind blowing.  Instead of pushing the dynamic battlefield multiplier of conducting simultaneous Airborne and Amphibious Assault operations on the Battalion/Brigade level or higher (meaning the Marine Expeditionary Unit and the 82nd's Division Ready Brigade), both services are out trying to re-invent the wheel of the Rapid Deployment Forces of the 1980's.