The Navy plans to procure 18 to 35 of the new Medium Landing Ships and homeport up to nine in Pearl Harbor when it begins taking delivery in 2029.
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Balakitan gives troops from Philippines, US, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and France real combat training – and a lot of it In the Balikatan military exercise, taking place in the Philippines, troops from the Philippines, US, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and France have been getting real combat training – and a lot of it. It’s conducted with China in mind – even if nobody will say so. That’s the etiquette. Furthermore, the forces are training in the area that would be part of the “operational area” in the event the People’s Liberation Army moves against Taiwan. This includes the northern Philippines facing the South China Sea and the Luzon Strait, also known as the Bashi Channel, between Taiwan and…Open
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The Return of Conventional Amphibious Warfare. Grant Newsham explains the deployment of Marine Expeditionary Units to the Persian Gulf. He argues this move validates traditional amphibious capabilities over recent “force design” strategies that focused solely on small, island-based missile teams. Listen hereOpen
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Marine Corps whiz kids said amphibious warfare was finished – two MEU deployments for Iran fight suggest otherwise US Marine Expeditionary Units are headed for the Persian Gulf to bolster the fight against Iran. Not many years ago, Marine Corps strategists and the Commandant declared that long-range precision weapons and ubiquitous satellite surveillance had made amphibious operations too risky, if not obsolete. Any amphibious fleet, the argument went, would be spotted and sunk. The future of the Marine Corps, laid out in a scheme known as Force Design 2030 (FD-2030), would be small “sensor-missile” teams operating on remote islands and coastal areas, focused primarily on the Chinese threat. New Littoral Combat Regiments would…Open
The United States is surging amphibious Marine assets and personnel to the Middle East. NEWSMAX's Pentagon Correspondent Carla Babb reports exclusively.
Marine Corps Gen. Bradford J. Gering, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, testified on joint force readiness at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington.