USS Wasp sees five-year service life extension
“The other LHDs — we've got to study to see if we can extend them, and the plan is going to be to do that,” a top Marine said.
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.
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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
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 […]