Smaller, leaner: Marines put their new ways to fight to the test
Breaking Defense was on hand to see a Marine combat logistics regiment train to stay low-profile while extending the Corps', and Navy's, reach.
Breaking Defense was on hand to see a Marine combat logistics regiment train to stay low-profile while extending the Corps', and Navy's, reach.
The newly re-designated regiment plans to experiment with expeditionary advance base operations this year.
The Marine Corps says the new missile is a top modernization priority. Analysts say China is a big reason why.
Putting a variety of unmanned capabilities through their paces “in a Pacific warfighting scenario,” Rear Adm. Robert Gaucher, Pacific Fleet’s director of maritime headquarters, said in a statement, the exercise “will include maneuvering in contested space across all domains, targeting and fires, and intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance."
The document outlines an evolving effort to stand up a series of small, agile units tasked with air defense, anti-ship and submarine warfare, and seizing, holding and resupplying ad hoc bases to support an island-hopping campaign in the Pacific.