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The Marines call it their “Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations” concept. Heres What You Need to Remember: Observers long have expected the Marines to cut back on heavy combat forces in order to free up money and manpower for new anti-ship units. Sure enough, the 2021 budget proposal also asks to reduce the services ranks from 186,200 active-duty personnel to 184,100. The U.S. Marine Corps a few years ago started saying it needed to get serious about sinking enemy warships. Now the amphi...

So I’m reviewing a collection of Pacific War oral histories titled, weirdly enough,  The Pacific War Remembered. It’s a reissue of a book first published during the mid-1980s. It consists of compact testimonials from American protagonists in the greatest of all sea wars. And a sprightly read it is. The book is enlightening in several respects. First, let’s wax philosophical. Transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson maintained that “there is properly no history; only biograph...