The Marine Corps Is Forming a First-of-its-Kind Regiment in Hawaii
12 May 2020
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | By William Cole
A new "Marine Littoral Regiment" coming to Hawaii--the first of its kind in the Marine Corps--represents a major shift for the service in the "great power " competition playing out in the Western Pacific and preparation for a high-tech missile war in the region.
Instead of training for low-tech counterinsurgency missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, which defined the Corps for nearly two decades, littoral, or nearshore, Marines will become specialists in ship-to-shore capabilities in austere conditions to, among other things, sink ships at sea using missiles fired from unmanned vehicles that look like bulked-up Humvees.
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