In China’s backyard: The new Marine regiments changing the fight
By Todd South
Monday, May 13, 2024
It started in 2016, when then-Lt. Gen. David Berger looked at Marine units in the Pacific and saw that without radical changes, the Corps would be sidelined, or worse, in the most likely next fight.
As commander of Marine Forces Pacific, he’d seen wargames showing the Marine Corps battle its potentially biggest foe: China.
The service was set up to deliver two brigades’ worth of infantry and combined arms to a land fight that looked a lot more like the Korean War than what they would face in what experts envision as a 21st century, high-tech, long-range striking conflict.
Could the Corps keep up?
It was the start of the future commandant’s Force Design transformation plan — and the birth of the Marine littoral regiment.
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