27.11.2020, 23:09
In diesem Dokument -hier- beschreibt der Befehlshaber des USMC die Pläne zur Neuausrichtung der Marines, hin zu einer agileren Truppe für verteilte Operationen.
Zitat:The Commandant of the Marine Corps is charging into the future, but some aren't ready for change
Zitat:There are certainly big changes afoot. Much of the criticism surrounds the cuts Berger has outlined for the force. Most famously, there is the total elimination of Marine tanks. But there were far bigger victims to the ax — three infantry battalions, three tiltrotor squadrons, three heavy helicopter squadrons, two light attack helicopter squadrons, three military police battalions, and cutting tube artillery in favor of rockets, among others. Altogether, Berger’s proposed cuts amount to approximately 12,000 fewer Marines by 2030.
These cuts are both to help pay for modernization and to better align the force to the fights Marine Corps leadership believes are most likely.
Zitat:Depending on how limited one views the future responsibilities of the Marine Corps, this plan is erected on a fragile house of cards: that future Marine Corps operational commitments should be shaped by the reduction of front-line infantry battalions, whose casualties in any sustained engagement would quickly require replacements that may not be available if the battlespace expands;
Zitat:Marine Corps short 6 infantry battalion
(27.11.2020, 23:09)PKr schrieb: [ -> ]In diesem Dokument -hier- beschreibt der Befehlshaber des USMC die Pläne zur Neuausrichtung der Marines, hin zu einer agileren Truppe für verteilte Operationen.
(28.11.2020, 18:46)Quintus Fabius schrieb: [ -> ]Darf ich mit Verlaub vorschlagen deinen Eintrag mit dem folgenden Strang:
https://www.forum-sicherheitspolitik.org...light=USMC
zusammmen zu legen.
Die Pläne von Berger werden von vielen ehemaligen und aktiven Marines ziemlich stark kritisiert.
Meiner rein persönlichen Meinung nach ist der Umbau insgesamt zu radikal, vor allem dahin gehend, dass das gesamte USMC umgebaut wird. Es wäre meiner Ansicht nach sinnvoller, zunächst mal einen Teil des USMC in dieser Weise umzubauen und einen Teil in der alten Struktur zu belassen und dann erst mal weiter zu sehen, bevor man alles abreißt. Im militärischen Bereich kann eine zu weitgehende Veränderung und ein zu sehr auf neue Technologien sich ausrichtende Aufrüstung genau so schädlich sein wie sich zu langsam zu modernsieren.
Zitat:Tank Marines Get the Chance to Leave the Corps Early as Units Shut Down
Enlisted Marines and officers in tank-related military occupational specialties will be eligible for early-out programs, the service announced this week. The programs will allow those in four specialties to leave the Marine Corps early if they desire: armor Marines; senior-armor staff noncommissioned officers; main battle tank repairer/technicians; and tank officers.
Zitat:Navy Will Scrap USS Bonhomme Richardhttps://news.usni.org/2020/11/30/navy-wi...me-richard
The Navy decided to scrap the amphibious assault ship that burned for nearly five days earlier this year, concluding after months of investigations that trying to rebuild and restore the ship would take too much money and too much industrial base capacity.
The July 12 fire aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) began in the lower vehicle storage area but ravaged the island, the mast and the flight deck as it burned its way through the inside of the big-deck amphib. The ship remained watertight throughout the ordeal and hasn’t been moved from its spot on the pier at Naval Base San Diego, but between the fire itself and the days-long firefighting effort, about 60-percnet of the ship was ruined and would have had to be rebuilt or replaced, Rear Adm. Eric Ver Hage, the commander of Navy Regional Maintenance Center and the director of surface ship maintenance and modernization, told reporters today in a phone call. [...]
Three main options were considered: rebuild and restore the ship to its original function of moving Marines and their gear around for amphibious warfare; rebuild the ship to a new configuration for a new mission, such as a submarine or surface ship tender or a hospital ship; or decommission and scrap the ship. Ver Hage said restoring Bonhomme Richard to its original form would have cost between $2.5 billion and $3.2 billion and taken five to seven years. That work would have taken place in the Gulf Coast, he said.
Zitat:WASHINGTON — Despite a push from a group of powerful House lawmakers, the final defense spending bill for fiscal year 2021 — released Dec. 21 — slashes the Marine Corps’ efforts to develop long-range precision fires capabilities.
“The logic here doesn’t make much sense,” Wisconsin Republican Rep. Michael Gallagher, a House Armed Services Committee member, said in a statement to Defense News. “This year’s spending package increases funding where the Marine Corps sought reductions and makes reductions where they sought increases. If the Commandant doesn’t have the resources to implement his planning guidance — a strategy that has bipartisan support — it’s impossible to actually implement the National Defense Strategy.”
Zitat:The commandant, in describing his priorities, said the Marine Corps will need to reduce its heavy-lift capacity as part of its efforts to transform the force.
Zitat:Marine Corps looks at building 3 new Pacific regiments to counter China
Throughout the next decade the Marine Corps may create as many as three Marine littoral regiments, all based in the Pacific to keep a continued presence to deter China.
Marine Corps Times first reported news of the Marine littoral regiment in January 2020. Through experimentation and wargaming, top Corps leaders are looking to the new formation specifically to support the dispersed expeditionary advanced base operations.
The Corps announced in May 2020 that the first Marine littoral regiment would be based out of Hawaii. The Marines expect to experiment with the formation’s components and employment during the next three years before finalizing the unit’s structure.
Zitat: Marine infantry and artillery experienced a bit of a role reversal in March while the 12th Marine Regiment conducted exercises putting to the test Marine Corps expeditionary advanced base operations.
The regiment, with units based out of Okinawa, Japan, and Hawaii, conducted two simultaneous exercises in March that put the artillery unit as the main focus with the infantry taking on a supporting role.
“Historically we had what’s called direct support ― artillery supported the infantry as they secured an objective,” Col. Michael Roach, commander of 12th Marines, told Marine Corps Times. “In this case we were the supported force, so in both exercises an infantry unit was attached to the artillery unit, so that’s a change. We had artillery officers as mission commanders for infantry forces.”
The role reversal is part of the Marine Corps’ plan to prepare for a littoral fight against a near-peer competitor.
Through long-range fires, electronic warfare and maybe even submarine-hunting the Marines would clear the way for the Navy to launch its campaign and help deliver a knockout blow with the rest of the joint force.
The new strategy de-emphasizes the infantry while putting the priority on whatever the Navy needs from the Marine Corps to complete its mission.
On the island of le Shima, Japan, Marines from 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion (headquartered on Okinawa, Japan) alongside Army and Air Force special forces units conducted a quick raid that secured the enemy airfield.
The elite troops conducted a freefall out the back of Marine Corps MV-22B Ospreys under the cover of darkness.
Once on the island and the notional enemy was neutralized the force surveyed and secured an airfield that soon saw Marine F-35Bs from Fighter Attack Squadron 121 land.
Soon after the F-35Bs showed up, Ospreys and CH-53E Super Stallions dropped over Marines from 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, on the island to set up the defense for an expeditionary advanced base where 12th Marines’ artillery set up to provide fires for the Navy, a press release about the exercises said.
“This event illustrated how Special Operations Forces capabilities can support the rapid deployment of 3d Marine Division’s long-range precision fires platforms into austere or remote locations,” Army Lt. Col. Erik Davis said in the release.