As relations between the United States and China heat up, the U.S. military is actively developing and adjusting the strategic tactics of the Marine Corps, while seeking the cooperation of allies to respond to future military conflicts with the Chinese Communist Party. The new plan overturns decades of traditional Marine Corps tactics and makes amphibious assault from sea to land a core priority, according to U.S. media outlet The Washington Times, which revealed that U.S. Marine Corps Commandant David Berger (R) 20.
The new plan overturns decades of traditional Marine Corps tactics and makes amphibious assault from sea to land a core priority. (Photo/revised from David Berger’s Twitter)
The U.S. Army Marine Corps Commander David Berger wrote an article in the U.S. Army magazine Military Review on the 20th, outlining the new Marine Corps mission, which includes reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance of the Chinese Communist Party’s PLA activities from waters close to the Chinese coast, and working closely with regional allies to deter Chinese Communist Party coercion, according to a report in the Washington Times.
Berg noted that the CCP’s rapidly developing long-range precision strike missiles and weapons are more likely to attack land bases, and in addition, large naval vessels are now vulnerable to the CCP’s new anti-ship ballistic fly Dongfeng-21 (DF-21) and Dongfeng-2 (DF-26), so a light, self-reliant, highly mobile maritime expeditionary force would be close to China’s coasts and take up positions as a military indispensable force for commanders to provide vital support in finding and tracking high-value targets such as the CCP military’s reconnaissance platforms, reconnaissance forces, and other CCP command, control, communications, computers, networks, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting systems.
According to Berger, during a conflict with the CCP, Marine Corps forces in the engagement area will have a “continuous presence” in critical waters and will seek to deter and combat non-lethal coercion and other malicious activities against U.S. allies, partners and other interest groups. Marines floating at sea would thus be able to target these systems with missiles and other weapons and form a “highly lethal naval and combined fires kill chain” for the Navy.
From international waters, the Marines would operate ashore for short periods of time with local allies and partners, reducing the need for heavy ground forces or large land-based aviation units. Smaller forces will also reassure allies who are reluctant to host large numbers of U.S. troops.
Berger predicts that the new mission will be controversial in the Marine Corps and throughout the U.S. Army because it appears to go against the traditional role of the Marine Corps as an amphibious combat force, but it is necessary to re-Marine tactical strategy in the face of a possible war situation with the Chinese Communist Party.
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