Fast Deployments Deter Better Than Bases: Stimson

Fast Deployments Deter Better Than Bases: Stimson
Fast Deployments Deter Better Than Bases: Stimson

The data show the deployment of an amphibious ready group was effective, as was the movement of an aircraft carrier strike group. Deploying ground forces and land-based air forces in significant numbers also were effective attention-getters.

Marines Train ‘Surge’ Force For Major War: ‘Two Different MAGTFs’

Marines Train ‘Surge’ Force For Major War: ‘Two Different MAGTFs’
Marines Train ‘Surge’ Force For Major War: ‘Two Different MAGTFs’

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: Some Marine Corps units, but not all, will get extra training in large-scale combat as the Pentagon refocuses from counterinsurgency to great power conflict. While every Marine would have a role in a major war with Russia or China — the service isn’t big enough to leave anybody on…

Davis: Marines Want VTOL Drone Before FVL

Davis: Marines Want VTOL Drone Before FVL
Davis: Marines Want VTOL Drone Before FVL

AUVSI: There’s money in the 2018 budget to develop a new sea-based, armed vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drone the size of the Air Force’s MQ-9 Reaper, Marine Corps deputy commandant for aviation, Lt. Gen. Jon “Dog” Davis, says. Davis expects to see them in the inventory well before the Army-led Future Vertical Lift program produces new…