USMC Doctrine Changes

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Marine wargames offer a look at the future — and fuel dissent

For the Marines who may one day carry out new kinds of operations, the stakes of these games are high.
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Every time I look at this new concept of scattering the USMC across a swathe of Pacific Islands, I think about the Japanese in WWII, and how well that worked for them. And logistics was a huge part of the problem they faced, with many of their troops ultimately facing starvation, not the enemy.
 
DWG said:
Every time I look at this new concept of scattering the USMC across a swathe of Pacific Islands, I think about the Japanese in WWII, and how well that worked for them. And logistics was a huge part of the problem they faced, with many of their troops ultimately facing starvation, not the enemy.
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Right.

The Allies bypassed most of those islands and let things like PT boats blockade them from getting resupplied. No reason to fight every single island on the way to Japan when you can get away with only invading the important ones.

The US also has a lot more options for resupply than the Imperial Japanese did.
 
@Scott Kenny Mack was bought outright by Renault Trucks in 1990. In 2001, AB Volvo became majority shareholder in Renault Trucks. In 2012, Renault sold its remaining shares to Volvo.
Mack's dealing with warranty work has probably changed since 40+ years ago. For better or for worse.
 
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Scott Kenny said:
Pretty sure both of those are heavier than what the AH1 pylons can carry.
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I'd have though any 150nm range weapon would be too heavy, yet here we are. From link:

he U.S. Marine Corps is transforming an unspecified U.S. Air Force missile into a weapon that will give its AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters the ability to strike moving targets on land and at sea 150 nautical miles away.
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Scott Kenny said:
I was more surprised that JAGM is 2/3 the range of a late model Hellfire...
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Don't buy the stated range of JAGM. Here's why - 8km at low altitude, low direct trajectory, 8km at high altitude, high trajectory. Makes no sense.


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Forest Green said:
Don't buy the stated range of JAGM. Here's why - 8km at low altitude, low direct trajectory, 8km at high altitude, high direct trajectory. Makes no sense.
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Agreed, pure glide range from high altitude should be more than the low altitude range.

But I'm more at the point of "why isn't the claimed range of the JAGM the same as the Hellfire? It makes it very obvious that you're underselling the range!"
 
Scott Kenny said:
Agreed, pure glide range from high altitude should be more than the low altitude range.

But I'm more at the point of "why isn't the claimed range of the JAGM the same as the Hellfire? It makes it very obvious that you're underselling the range!"
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Also the fact that it's LOAL (Lock-On After Launch) makes it obvious that they're underselling the range too. ;)
 
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New Tech Give Marine Force-on-Force Training a Reality Boost - USNI News

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. – All eyes were on a set of monitors in a crowded conference room as a half-dozen briefers summed up the action from the night before. Several Marine Corps battalions had gotten into pitched battle with an adversary force that had maneuvered its way into Marine Corps Air...
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jsport said:
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Marines fast track qualified cyber, signals recruits to rank of gunny

The Marine Corps has launched a pilot program that will allow qualified recruits to enter the Corps with a rank as high as gunnery sergeant.
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They really should have been Warrant Officers, not E7 gunnery sergeants. Warrants are technical specialists, not combat leaders. Warrants are still officers, so enlisted salute them and call them Sir/Maam, but they only give orders inside whatever shop they run. Mechanics, electrical, etc.
 
Grey Havoc said:
Second, it is interesting that American Amphibious Ready Groups (ARGs) like the one Duncan is protecting don’t usually have dedicated escort warships of their own. Twenty years ago this would have been unthinkable but there is an increasing trend with US ARGs (and our own LRGs) to operate without accompanying destroyers or frigates. The brochure says this improves “flexibility, rapid response capabilities, and adaptability to evolving maritime threats”. The reality is largely that the US Navy, like ours, doesn’t have enough escort warships to go around. This is unfortunate as the ships of Amphibious Squadron 4 have only close-in, last-ditch air defence weapons. Most of the 24th MEU also offers no capability for fighting at sea – the main exception to this being the six Marine Harriers aboard the Wasp, which can act as effective air defence fighters (though without proper radar direction) or mount anti-ship attacks. The presence of Duncan with her dedicated group air defence Sea Viper missile system makes the ARG enormously safer.
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