USMC Doctrine Changes

The USMC is likely to see quite a bit of turnover in it's upper ranks soon.

In other news (though possibly soon to be rendered redundant by the likely demise of the 'missile marines' under the new administration):

Ενίσχυση Πεζοναυτών: Αξιολόγηση αυτόνομων οχημάτων εκτόξευσης πυραύλων ROGUE Fires - Futurewarfare

Το Σώμα Πεζοναυτών των ΗΠΑ ανέθεσε στην Oshkosh Defense ένα πρωτοποριακό συμβόλαιο για την ενσωμάτωση του πακέτου αυτονομίας της Forterra στο Remotely
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Grey Havoc said:
The USMC is likely to see quite a bit of turnover in it's upper ranks soon.

In other news (though possibly soon to be rendered redundant by the likely demise of the 'missile marines' under the new administration):

Ενίσχυση Πεζοναυτών: Αξιολόγηση αυτόνομων οχημάτων εκτόξευσης πυραύλων ROGUE Fires - Futurewarfare

Το Σώμα Πεζοναυτών των ΗΠΑ ανέθεσε στην Oshkosh Defense ένα πρωτοποριακό συμβόλαιο για την ενσωμάτωση του πακέτου αυτονομίας της Forterra στο Remotely
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Would not hold my breath on that. There's a document circulating from the guy who is now Assistant Sec Def for Strategy that seems to be all in on the Marine Littoral strategy.
 

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I cannot imagine the MLRs are going anywhere. What might be much more at risk is their landing ship program, which keeps getting kicked back.
 
Scott Kenny said:
Officers have always wanted that. The idea of the Strategic Corporal, where the decisions a 20yo kid makes are impacting the strategic level planning is utterly abhorrent to most officers.
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As they should be. Any army that needs to rely on such things is an army that loses wars, big and small, as proven by the Wehrmacht's incredible small unit capability being absolutely overshadowed by vastly superior strategic and industrial potentials of the USSR and USA-UK joint alliance.

Berger was a bit of a goober for buying into strategic corporalcy and has adequately neutered the U.S. Marines' ability to do, well, much of anything notable for at least a decade. Would've been better to just stand up a single MLR in the Raiders and keep the tanks but whatever.
 
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Lockheed Martin Supports USMC Exercise with Advanced 5G Capabilities

Lockheed Martin, along with support from Intel Corporation and Radisys Corporation, conducted 5G military demonstrations during the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) exercise, Steel Knight 2024.
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USMC 2025 Aviation Plan:
  • XQ-58: work will continue towards fielding a minimum viable product (MVP) for an F-35 loyal wingman for the MUX TACAIR program by testing and refining the payloads
  • Legacy Hornets: The 161 F/A-18C/D fleet will live through at least 2029, and they are currently getting AN/APG-79(v)4 radars. The #1 funding priority for 2025 is to integrate “existing joint extended range, anti-maritime, and land attack weapons” (sounds like JASSM and LRASM stealth cruise missiles).
  • MQ-9: The number of planned MQ-9s to 2040 remains the same (18)—which seems pretty odd and out of line with most of the plan’s concepts. To be fair, though, they did add a 1:1 ratio of fixed and mobile ground control stations.
  • F-5: The 13-jet F-5 aggressor fleet is on track to increase to 22 jets by 2029 to meet what is projected to be a whopping 40% increase in adversary air requirements (17,000 sorties/year). Expect the commercial ADAIR market to try and seize on this opportunity space.
  • APKWS: the laser-guided rocket kit known as the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II is getting an IR-seeker upgrade, likely for expanded use as a low-cost counter-drone weapon.
  • PASM: The AH-1Z Precision Attack Strike Munition (formally called the Long Range Attack Missile (LRAM)) is slated for a maximum range, live fire shot by the end of this year. This will get some attention because the world is not prepared for an attack helicopter that can shoot a 150+ mile missile.
 
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Scott Kenny said:
Disagree with the decision, I think they should have stuck with squads of 15, but 3 fireteams of 5 each.
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It's a manpower thing, at least in part. If you want to form the new precision fires platoon in that separate recce and fires company, you need to get the troops from somewhere, and "downsizing" the squad back to 13 may be the only available source.

Going back to 13 also helps with fitting squads in existing transport. You can fit two slightly understrength squads on an Osprey or one full squad in the back of an ACV. With 15, you have to break up squads much more, until they are very understrength.
 
TomS said:
It's a manpower thing, at least in part. If you want to form the new precision fires platoon in that separate recce and fires company, you need to get the troops from somewhere, and "downsizing" the squad back to 13 may be the only available source.
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True. I was kicking around an idea for how to make a (sci-fi) unit built around the idea of deliberate interventions using Squads of 15. I ended up with a company pushing 300 bodies, mostly because I gave the company the functional equivalent of a battalion HQ unit, and the Battalion was something like 1200...


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Going back to 13 also helps with fitting squads in existing transport. You can fit two slightly understrength squads on an Osprey or one full squad in the back of an ACV. With 15, you have to break up squads much more, until they are very understrength.
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That's more an indictment of the transport available.
 
Scott Kenny said:
That's more an indictment of the transport available.
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It's what they have, and there's no practical way to change it all now. ACV is already rather large, adding two more troop seats just isn't an option.
 
Squads w/o 3x5pax fire tms are at a disadvantage. Extra vehicle space can be used for additional augmentees..FOs, medics, ammo bears, drone operators, ATGM crews, MG tms or equipment, logistics for distributed ops.
 

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