US Marines change course in the Pacific: What does it mean for India?
Grant Newsham
Updated : May 17, 2020, 6:10 AM
Change isn’t always easy. Even for US Marines.
But as China’s military capabilities continue to improve at an alarming rate, the Marines are planning to reconfigure themselves to take on the People’s Liberation Army in the Western Pacific. The Marine initiative is a gamble with uncertain prospects, but it might be relevant for the Indian Armed Forces.
In mid-2019, after nearly 20 years of focus on the Middle East and Afghanistan, United States Marine Corps (USMC) Commandant General David Berger declared the maritime Asia-Pacific was now the Corps’ priority theater.
And Berger was clear—it is all about China.
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