The 1 Thing the U.S. Marine Corps Must Do To Win the Wars of the Future

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December 12, 2019

The 1 Thing the U.S. Marine Corps Must Do To Win the Wars of the Future

If the U.S. Marine Corps is going to be effective in future wars with major powers, it needs to ditch the heavy equipment and get lighter.
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Forget transport planes, trucks and tank-killing armored vehicles. If the U.S. Marine Corps is going to be effective in future wars with major powers, it needs to ditch the heavy equipment and get lighter.


That’s the message from Marine Corps commandant David Berger. “We have to get rid of legacy things in the Marine Corps,” Berger said at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California on Dec. 7, 2019. “We’ve got to become expeditionary again, which we know how to do.”

Berger specified “big, heavy things” such as manned counter-armor systems as prime candidates for cut-backs, according

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/1-thing-us-marine-corps-must-do-win-wars-future-104252