"When things like Turkey or [Sudan] come up, and other aspects of the US Joint Force are responding, it’s uncomfortable because [the Marines] look at it as something that historically they have done," said one analyst.
In comments to Breaking Defense, a Marine Corps spokesman forcefully pushed back against the new budget request’s failure to seek new amphibious warships.
The brainchild of the Marines' advanced tech lab, the Autonomous Littoral Connector system successfully beached in recent exercises. But the deep water of military acquisition looms ahead.