Why reviewing force structure is a good idea
By Gary Anderson - - Monday, July 9, 2018
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
There will never be another amphibious landing. That piece of conventional wisdom was prevalent at the end of World War I in the wake of the debacle at Gallipoli where an Allied amphibious landing was disastrously repulsed by the Ottoman Turks. Two decades later, Allied troops were making war winning amphibious landings in Europe, North Africa and the Western Pacific.
However, after the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan ending World War II, the conventional wisdom of new military experts was again that amphibious operations were obsolete. Five years later, Marines were storming ashore at Inchon to disrupt the North Korean invasion of it southern neighbor. Today, the efficacy of amphibious operations is again being questioned in a study on military roles and missions by the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC).
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