Marine Warbot Companies: Where Naval Warfare, the U.S. National Defense Strategy, and Close Combat Lethality Task Force Intersect
Jeff Cummings, Scott Cuomo, Olivia Garard, and Noah Spataro
June 28, 2018
The Marine Corps has a tendency toward paranoia over its institutional purpose – America doesn’t need a Marine Corps, America wants a Marine Corps. We were recently reminded that there are reasons this insecurity endures. After all, in addition to directing the Pentagon to produce a “sweeping roles and missions report,†the Senate Armed Services Committee just questioned “the survivability of Navy-Marine flotillas†and viability of amphibious forced entry operations given today’s pacing threats and precision weapons. Going one step further, the committee asked if the joint force should have “one Armed Force dedicated primarily to low-intensity missions,†with the implication that this should be the Marine Corps. In addition to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s skepticism, there’s also a growing schism developing between the Navy and Marine Corps, putting their interdependence at risk.
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