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Army tries to muscle into Pacific as budget battle looms Abraham Mahshie © Provided by Washington Examiner The Army's case for more funding to field combat systems to fight China at first glance appears geared toward a budget battle with the Navy and Air Force, the services that long have dominated the Pacific region. But the ground service's vision actually pits it against the Marine Corps in a possible David vs. Goliath funding fight. Deterring China typically has fallen to the Navy, via things such as dual carrier exercises in the South China Sea, or the Air Force's B-52 ...

Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email Let’s Get Real About US Military ‘Dominance’ American strategists need to drop the assumption that the U.S. military will be the superior force in any given situation. April 1, 2021 07:00 AM ET “We want to be the GOAT.” So said Lt. Gen. John Shaw, deputy commander of U.S. Space Command, in a meme that drew some derision on social media early last month. Most of the jeers appeared to concern the goat emoji used in place of the acronym for Greatest Of All Time. But what of the three-star’s br...

March 12 Col. Anthony Henderson, commanding officer 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, receives the Legion of Merit award on Camp Pendleton, Calif., Dec. 15, 2016. (Lance Cpl. Tyler Byther/Marine Corps) Passed over for promotion three times, Marine Col. Anthony Henderson may soon see his first star. The 28-year veteran, with years of experience leading infantry units, is currently the director of concepts and plans at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. He recently was featured in a story by The New York Times about absence of Black generals in the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps has ...

The Marine Corps requested $125 million in 2021 to buy nearly 50 Tomahawk missiles the service could launch from land.

The Marine Corps later this year plans to activate in Hawaii its first-ever Marine Littoral Regiment — the centerpiece of a sweeping force redesign enabling troops to operate in small units with ship-killing missiles from the islands that dot the Western Pacific.