Marine Infantry looking for missions! They don't know which way the Infantry will go!

via Military Times.

The primacy of the Marine Corps infantry has so far stood the test of time, but the shift in focus to long range fires and a subordinate role to Navy maneuver may change that.

“Right now, the infantry is the centerpiece and ­artillery, aviation other capabilities support the infantry. Over time the artillery and infantry will be the centerpiece and the infantry will be the supporting arm,” retired Marine Col. Mark Cancian said.

If a generation of Marines move through the Corps with that dynamic, “the Marine Corps will become a long-range strike service … and the ethos of the infantry will no longer permeate the Marine Corps, the Marine Corps would look much more, frankly, like the Army,” he added.

Though the culture may change, the fighting spirit of the Corps will never be in doubt, according to Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Troy Black.

“The future fight will still require Marines to ‘first and foremost,’ have a “warfighting ethos that we literally locate, close with and destroy our enemy,” he told Marine Corps Times in February.

Wong said what he sees happening is the long-range fires community taking on some of the ethos of the infantry.

When Berger describes “how the Marine Corps is going to be this kind of raiding force that’s the stand in force, on your own, dispersed, there’s something about the infantry culture that’s there,” Wong said.

Whatever the impact on the culture may be, it still leaves the Corps looking for what missions the infantry can do.

“There’s a big re-evaluation going on and there are different factions with different ideas and who knows which direction it’s going to go in,” said B.A. Friedman, a military analyst who focuses on amphibious warfare. “They don’t know.”

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They don't know.  

Drink that shit in.  

Marine Infantry is looking for missions?

How crazy is that!!!!

I know why 2023 is the deadline that Berger has put in place.  That's the year he leaves and the tribe is slowly waking up to his bullshit.

I've been raging about this thing but I think I can chill.  Other voices are starting to amp up.

Berger will go down as just another in a string of failed Commandants.  I've seen bad erratic  leaders.  But the amount of friction and confusion being foisted on the Marine Corps by the current guy in the big chair makes Amos look downright insightful.

The Marine Corps is going thru a "dark age".  We need a modern day General Gray to pull our chestnuts out the fire.

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Did the Commandant of the Marine Corps just write off Taiwan?

 via USNI News

Berger said that should China choose to seize control of Taiwan, then the U.S. should be ready for the possibility that the conflict would expand across all domains and outside the Indo-Pacific region. (SNAFU! This bubba just stated that should China take Taiwan we should be ready for the fight to expand? Did he just write off Taiwan and state that we need to be ready for action in the greater Pacific?)

“The old style of how do you contain, how do you prevent a seizure of Taiwan will probably not [be] applicable going forward because there are capabilities in other domains that weren’t there before,” Berger said. (SNAFU! Ok, this is getting interesting!  Is he stating clearly that we no longer have the ability to prevent the seizure of Taiwan!!!)

“And things that are frankly to be determined in some like space, how far any nation will go because the rules are not yet written for sort of the international sort of rule of how things will work in that domain,” he continued. “I think we have to – we are – adjust in the way that we look at any potential conflict over Taiwan. And that I would agree with you a hundred percent has to go into all, much beyond the military and much beyond U.S. versus [People’s Liberation Army Navy]. [It] has to be a wider conversation than that.”

Berger said he sees two potential scenarios for China’s actions in the region.

“One is the inch-by-inch, yard-by-yard, movement forward that we see in the areas like the South China Sea and in other areas where if – in I’m just going to use sort of a martial arts metaphor, where if you lean back, they lean forward,” Berger said. “That works in their favor because there’s no fight there. They just move, move, move forward a little bit at a time.”

“But the other part is a more dynamic, a more kinetic scenario like Taiwan, where it’s clearly in their interest and they have stated so overtly that they want to bring Taiwan underneath the umbrella. And that’s going to be counter to – so far to our U.S. policy,” he added. “I think you look at them through different lenses – the every day, every week competition versus what are the set of circumstances by which the [People’s Republic of China] might move towards Taiwan and what might that look like.”

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I've looked at the map.

I've said it here.

This is the first time I've heard a high ranking US official state it.

Taiwan is a lost cause.

When China decides to take it, there isn't a thing we can do to stop it short of nuclear war.

So the question becomes.  How long before the Chinese make the move? I'm betting rather soon.  A couple of years.  The sad fact (and I hate going here) but the US isn't in a position to stop it and our current President clearly doesn't have the stomach for a fight nor does he have the fortitude to suffer drastic economic pain to the Chinese (which would rebound to our own economy) to make such a move a loser for them.

Taiwan is dead man walking.  They just don't know it yet.

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The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) transits the Atlantic Ocean during a photo exercise, May 17, 2021. Iwo Jima is underway in the Atlantic Ocean with Amphibious Squadron 4 and the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) as part of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Larry Darnell Lockett Jr.)