10, 2019
Why Don't the Marines Want More Amphibious Assault Ships?
What happens now?
by David Axe Follow @daxe on Twitter L
Key point: The Marines are rethinking what they need for the future of war.
The incoming commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps is backing away from the service’s longstanding requirement for 38 dedicated amphibious assault ships.
The move could signal the beginning of a new approach to amphibious warfare for the world’s leading marine force.
New commandant Gen. David Berger is “willing to shed some key tenets of the Marines’ amphibious force-planning in recent years – including the demand for 38 amphibious warships to support a two Marine Expeditionary Brigade-sized forcible entry force,†Megan Eckstein reported for the U.S. Naval Institute.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-dont-marines-want-more-amphibious-assault-ships-103572
