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See below: Michael Doran ..Hudson Institute.....”Star Wars vs Mad Max” . This goes directly to the failures of FF2030....the USMC MUST RETURN TO BEING A MAD MAX MAGTF W A BALANCED OFFENSIVE AGILE COMBINED ARMS TEAM! Isn’t the current FD2030 team going to do a presentation at the Hudson Institute? Michael needs to be invited.

This quote is from a recent article in Tablet Magazine regarding the IDF Failure on Oct 7, 2023.

A newly published investigative piece in Israel’s daily Yedioth Ahronoth recounts the blow-by-blow failure of Israel’s army on that fateful morning. How could a low-tech, relatively small terror organization outsmart a high-tech giant with a modern state behind it. Mike and Gadi discuss the main findings: how Hamas overwhelmed the IDF’s monitoring systems and cut off its chain of command; how IDF HQ and air force were forced to fall back on cellphones and Telegram channels for a picture of the battlefields; why the Israeli air force was so slow to respond; and, above all, how an intelligence service, capable of pinpointing a specific individual and taking him out in a surgical attack in Beirut, failed to detect a ragtag army of 2,000 terrorists practicing for an invasion right under Israel’s nose.

Evidently, Hamas understood exactly how the IDF operates, while the IDF made erroneous speculations about Hamas’ intentions at the expense of studying its M.O. and its capabilities. “

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One thought has always puzzled me. Could the Marine Corps have adopted the anti-ship mission in addition to its other missions without sacrificing its combined arms capability? Could the Marine Corps have added anti-ship missiles without getting rid of arty, armor, infantry, and other assets? Was this an economic decision?

Marines train for amphibious, heliborne, mech, and other operations. Why not just add in the antishipping mission? Just a thought.

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