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Here s What You Need to Remember: A Marine Littoral Regiment, about 2,200 Marines in total, would be made up of three separate but interconnected groups, a combat unit, an anti-aircraft team, and a logistics element.
The threat of an expansionist China now the world’s largest naval power is forcing the United States Marine Corps to reevaluate how it conducts business.
During the Marine Corps’ Modern Day Marine event, held virtually this year due to the ongoing pandemic, one of the Marine Corps’ top brass explained just what exactly is being done to modernize the Corps for a future fight in the Pacific.
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U.S. Marines march to the beach from a landing craft utility boat as part of an amphibious assault for exercise Baltic Operations 2019. (MC3 Jack D. Aistrup/U.S. Navy) In 2021 the Marine Corps will see a new unit come to life. The Marine littoral regiment is one designed specifically to fit within Commandant Gen. David Berger’s plan for the future Corps to fight a dispersed war in the enemy littorals. The Marine Corps’ III Marine Expeditionary Force will standup the first three Marine littoral regiments and begin a three-year experiment to figure out how to best build and fight the regiments.