Marine Corps Provides Details on How New Littoral Regiment Would Fight in Pacific
Military.com | By Drew F. Lawrence
Published April 09, 2025 at 6:05pm ET
The Marine Corps' new littoral regiment is less than two years old and growing as the service contends with how to resupply and sustain it in the vast Pacific region, where China's military influence is casting an increasing shadow.
Col. Peter Eltringham, commander of the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment, said in an interview with reporters Tuesday that logistics will be a key challenge that Marines will have to overcome, given the proliferation of drones, missiles and China's reach. The regiment was established in late 2023 and recently received the final element of its three-unit concept last month, Military.com previously reported.
The 12th MLR, one of the service's latest answers to China's Pacific aims and the region's vast environment, is uniquely capable of providing the Marine Corps a low-profile, rapid-response unit designed to be "hard to find," Eltringham said.
But as the service contends with abysmally low readiness rates for the Navy's amphibious warships, which are meant to transport Marine expeditionary units and supplies to the fight in the Pacific, the 12th MLR intends to remain "dispersed" across the region's countless archipelagos and isles to support combat operations there.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/09/survivable-marine-corps-littoral-regiment-logistics-key-challenge-any-war-china.html
