Anti-Ship Missiles are the Marine Corps' Highest Priority
The Marines call it their “Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations” concept. Here's 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 amphibious branch is putting its money where its mouth is. The Corps is asking Congress for money to sta...
Source: nationalinterest.org