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Why Future Amphibious Assaults May Need Tanks, Artillery & Heavy Armor

Marine Corps Force Design 2030 roadmap for the future force makes groundbreaking observations
KRIS OSBORN, WARRIOR MAVEN - CENTER FOR MILITARY MODERNIZATIONUPDATED:2 HOURS AGOORIGINAL:11 HOURS AGO
By Kris Osborn, President, Center for Military Modernization

Island hopping warfare in the South China Sea, high-speed air-sea-land combat along the Chinese coastline or perhaps even a full scale amphibious assault to liberate Taiwan … are all likely the kinds of missions the US Marine Corps trains to be prepared for. Yet the prospect of amphibious warfare now introduces an entirely new generation of variables and threat circumstances given the advent of longer-range sensors, precision-guided anti-armor weapons, AI-enabled sensing and targeting systems and many new kinds of armed unmanned platforms.

Citing the success of anti-armor weapons in Ukraine, the text of Marine Corps Force Design 2030 roadmap for the future force makes groundbreaking observations such as …highlighting the need for a massive increase in unmanned systems, drones and manned-unmanned teaming along with agile, expeditionary, high-speed lightweight platforms, multi-domain weaponry, tactics and networking technologies designed to enable a more disaggregated, yet highly networked and lethal assault force.

Clearly the futurists, weapons developers and combat tacticians within the Corps seem to understand the increasing importance of the need for the Corps to be true to its maritime, multi-domain roots and move quickly across air, land and sea with unprecedented and unparalleled speed and lethality…yet in totally new threat environment. In a modern combat environment, it seems this would require upgraded anti-armor weapons, hand-launched drones, high-speed amphibious platforms and the ability to leverage now-operational Marine Corps 5th-generation stealth air power. What about heavy armor platforms and traditional weapons such as Howitzer artillery, tanks, armored reconnaissance vehicles and helicopters? How much will they still be needed .. and what is the future role of the Corps’ famous Marine Air-Ground-Task-Force (MAGTAF)?

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Re: Why Future Amphibious Assaults May Need Tanks, Artillery & Heavy Armor
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2023, 10:55:48 am »
They need all that to slog through the rain forests of the Pacific Islands which seem to be the current focus of defense?   :shrug:
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Re: Why Future Amphibious Assaults May Need Tanks, Artillery & Heavy Armor
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2023, 06:02:56 pm »
Tanks, artillery, and heavy armor aren't going to win any war with China over Taiwan.

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Re: Why Future Amphibious Assaults May Need Tanks, Artillery & Heavy Armor
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2023, 06:20:47 pm »
Tanks, artillery, and heavy armor aren't going to win any war with China over Taiwan.

Right. But modifying an entire branch of the service so that it is only appropriate for one particular potential conflict simply is not cost-effective.

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Re: Why Future Amphibious Assaults May Need Tanks, Artillery & Heavy Armor
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2023, 09:27:27 am »
Right. But modifying an entire branch of the service so that it is only appropriate for one particular potential conflict simply is not cost-effective.

So it's a perfect solution for Biden.
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address