Posted on Mar 24, 2020
The Corps is axing all of its tank battalions and cutting grunt units
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The Corps is always good at posturing for the future. Tanks are over rated and too heavy for a light infantry force. That said, keep an eye out for the next gen LAV and Amtrak which could be tank lite. The M60 was perfect for the Corps. We got sucked in to being too heavy as a second land army. MRAPs and M1s were never a good fit. If Marines need heavy armor then the army can attach units to MAGTFs. We live in a joint world. I’m pretty sure Gen Berger and his team know what the hell they are doing. FYI, Marines can’t even move their own tanks, the army supports that piece in a tactical environment and they do it well.
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Relative to infantry, the Corps has always ramped up and down in the past decade or two with infantry structure as the conditions required.
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Well it sounds like this is a long awaited update to the amphibious warfare approach that we have waited decades for. Appears with the anti-ship missiles they want less reliance on Naval ships for protection while on islands.
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I’m so far removed, so maybe a bit blind. But it seems to me it’s about air superiority and naval forces like sub warfare and Carrier groups. We can project power anywhere, massive power, and no one else can do that. Seems like armor and raw troop numbers is so 1980s. If you own the air those tanks and troops are meaningless, they have no protection from something as old an antiquated like the A10. Owning the sky is how you win.
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Sgt Dale Briggs
Maybe so, but we can’t build forts and camps everywhere to base and house them. But air power can come do its job and go back to Guam or a carrier.
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Although air power is effective and needed, it alone has never won wars. We will always need ground forces to win ground and to hold ground. It’s a combined arms effort.
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Sgt Dale Briggs
We’re not in a winning a war mode right now, and we haven’t been for a very long time. Politics and the nature of the enemy I suppose. We’re all about small unit tactics and have been since Nam. Well below even Company level contacts, down to squads I suppose reinforced as needed. Tanks are still very helpful, but we clear a city then abandon it , they reinfest it. We don’t take and hold ground much anymore, we kill them where we find them and move on.
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