When the Pentagon revised its defense strategy to focus on China in 2018, no military service moved faster than the Marine Corps to begin making changes. Incoming Commandant General David Berger decla...
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The Russian Marine Corps’ Dire Choice As Its Troops Die In Record Numbers
155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade troopers in 2021. Russian defense ministry photo A Russian marine brigade reportedly lost 63 troops in a doomed, two-day assault on Ukrainian positions in eastern U...
Marine Corps War Plans Are Too Sino-Centric. What About The Other 90% Of The World?
China has long been known in standard Mandarin as Zongguo, the “middle country.” Judging from President Xi Jinping’s remarks to the Communist Party congress this weekend, the idea that China is the ce...
The Russians Spent Months Forming A New Army Corps. It Lasted Days in Ukraine.
A 3rd Army Corps BMP, abandoned near Kharkiv. Via social media The Kremlin this summer scrambled to form a new army corps, seeking replacements for 80,000 troops injured or killed in Ukraine and 5,000...
Russia Is Sending A Fresh Army Corps To Ukraine. Its Troops Are ‘Unfit And Old.’
3rd Army Corps tanks apparently bound for Ukraine. Via social media Photos that appeared online over the weekend, depicting Russian army armored vehicles on trains rolling out of the army training bas...
Army Corps Halts Permit Review For SpaceX’s Texas Launch Site
Topline The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suspended SpaceX’s application to expand its South Texas rocket launch site, according to a letter from the Corps sent to SpaceX and viewed by Bloomberg and th...
Let The Marine Corps Build The New Light Amphibious Warship
It’s time to supplement the Navy’s big amphibious fleet with light amphibious warships Getty Images The Pentagon’s proposed 2023 naval budget was a rude shock for America’s amphibious assa...