The unanswered question(s) that a diligent press ought ask, is why did the Commandant aka General Berger, decide on the FD2030 course of action and conduct himself in such a manner as to preclude any real discussion or opposition until it was too late? Coming from New England there is a natural cynicism in the air, water and food, and the thought comes to the fore that some very important data sets have never been brought the fore to justify this FD2030 mess. Or, is there something nefarious, larger at work? Or, could it be that those on the DC cocktail party circuit talked themselves into something really stupid? That rarified air of Georgetown, does strange things to people, swamp gas from foggy bottom? Regardless some digging into the basis, the real bassi for the FD#030 decisions, needs to be done. Fixing the MAGTF situation is tangible, but knowing why such awful decision making was done in the first place might be helpful. As in let’s never do that again.
Given congress’s penchant for hearings and the mild smell to severe stench developing, hearings on how this all happened with severe misrepresentations and IMHO willful deaf & blindness to any obstacles to immediate divestment of weapons, equipment and Marines. It seems to me that our Corps cannot perform missions that we are required to be ready to whenever called upon.
I have no problem with the overall concept of lightly armed forces such as Marine Raiders, but I do have a large problem with the Littoral Regiment concept of inserting them on islands within the island defensive belts without any supporting arms. I’m a former Marine artillery officer, so I try to pride myself in understanding supporting arms. Without a combined arms team consisting of artillery, tanks, combat engineers, assault amphibians, close air support, naval gunfire, and most importantly constant and reliable logistics history is doomed to repeat itself.
The concept that we can insert a force that includes missile batteries to attack enemy ships is great, but to also then say that they can remain stealthy is ludicrous given enemy ISR assets and the large footprint a missile battery has. The Corps has done nothing more than create modern Marine Defense Battalions, but without the means to defend themselves. The Marine Littoral Regiment mission with the force structure and mission concept present is a DIP mission.
The USMC X describes the Offensive Marine Force as lightly armed similar to FD 2024. I posted official photos of US Marine Tanks and Artillery in action on Iwo Jima and mentioned that Defenders on Islands are either destroyed or cut off and left to starve!
I just cked X and yes there is finally a remembrance. I will be checking for accuracy regarding equipment listed and not listed. One thing we do know Marines attacked the 20,000 plus defenders and killed all but 200!
Yes too busy to mention Operation Detachment D-Day’s 79 anniversary or today did the USMC Website or X post a remembrance of the Raising of the Stars and Stripes on Suribachi ?
The unanswered question(s) that a diligent press ought ask, is why did the Commandant aka General Berger, decide on the FD2030 course of action and conduct himself in such a manner as to preclude any real discussion or opposition until it was too late? Coming from New England there is a natural cynicism in the air, water and food, and the thought comes to the fore that some very important data sets have never been brought the fore to justify this FD2030 mess. Or, is there something nefarious, larger at work? Or, could it be that those on the DC cocktail party circuit talked themselves into something really stupid? That rarified air of Georgetown, does strange things to people, swamp gas from foggy bottom? Regardless some digging into the basis, the real bassi for the FD#030 decisions, needs to be done. Fixing the MAGTF situation is tangible, but knowing why such awful decision making was done in the first place might be helpful. As in let’s never do that again.
Given congress’s penchant for hearings and the mild smell to severe stench developing, hearings on how this all happened with severe misrepresentations and IMHO willful deaf & blindness to any obstacles to immediate divestment of weapons, equipment and Marines. It seems to me that our Corps cannot perform missions that we are required to be ready to whenever called upon.
I have no problem with the overall concept of lightly armed forces such as Marine Raiders, but I do have a large problem with the Littoral Regiment concept of inserting them on islands within the island defensive belts without any supporting arms. I’m a former Marine artillery officer, so I try to pride myself in understanding supporting arms. Without a combined arms team consisting of artillery, tanks, combat engineers, assault amphibians, close air support, naval gunfire, and most importantly constant and reliable logistics history is doomed to repeat itself.
The concept that we can insert a force that includes missile batteries to attack enemy ships is great, but to also then say that they can remain stealthy is ludicrous given enemy ISR assets and the large footprint a missile battery has. The Corps has done nothing more than create modern Marine Defense Battalions, but without the means to defend themselves. The Marine Littoral Regiment mission with the force structure and mission concept present is a DIP mission.
The USMC X describes the Offensive Marine Force as lightly armed similar to FD 2024. I posted official photos of US Marine Tanks and Artillery in action on Iwo Jima and mentioned that Defenders on Islands are either destroyed or cut off and left to starve!
I just cked X and yes there is finally a remembrance. I will be checking for accuracy regarding equipment listed and not listed. One thing we do know Marines attacked the 20,000 plus defenders and killed all but 200!
Yes too busy to mention Operation Detachment D-Day’s 79 anniversary or today did the USMC Website or X post a remembrance of the Raising of the Stars and Stripes on Suribachi ?
In the past the problem has been a lack of expertise among journalists and editors to be able assess the accuracy of reporting on wargames.