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Rivalry at Normandy, or a poor grasp of history?
Here’s a rather stunningly stupid article at NRO, by the usually bright W. Thomas Smith, Jr. Sixty-years-ago, along a 60-mile stretch of France’s Normandy coastline, a combined force of American,...
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Inchon, and Operational Maneuver From The Sea
The surprise North Korean invasion of South Korea steamrolled over lightly armed and poorly trained South Korean troops. Even the addition of US airpower and troop units did little to slow the...
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Aviation is killing the Marine Corps
Don’t just take my word for it. At its heart, the MAGTF’s importance within our defense framework rests on its ability to contribute to a range of potential military operations such as engagement and...
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Navy Bringing Well Decks Back to Amphibs | DoD Buzz
The Navy has begun early design work, affordability studies and planning with industry partners for its third big-deck America-Class Amphibious Assault Ship, or LHA 8, slated to enter service in 2024,...
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The Landing Craft Infantry
Faced with the challenge of mounting a cross channel invasion from England to France, the US and Britain realized that small landing craft like the famed Higgins boat would be enough to land the very...
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Motherships and International Cooperation
Every navy faces the challenge of unlimited missions, and limited resources. Even ours. For our allies, the problem is even more acute. The European Union, taken in aggregate, is roughly equal to the...
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DUKW!
From requirement to prototype in 38 days, and placed into production with only minor changes throughout the run. In the very early days of World War II, as the Army grasped that it would be required to...
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Squad Integrity, and the ACV
So, in our post about the Marines catching some flack for choosing a wheeled amphibious combat vehicle, jjak had a decent question: So how will a 10-man vehicle hold a 13 man squad? Based on this...
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Strategic Messaging, Done Right
A nine-dash line on Chinese passports. A second Navy disguised as a Coast Guard. And the above video. They get it. “Strategic Messaging” has heavy doses of propaganda. We, on the other hand,...
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The First Naval Battle for Guadalcanal 12-13 November 1942
The bloody slugging match for the island of Guadalcanal and the surrounding seas reached its peak fury seventy-three years ago this week. Between November 13th and 15th, 1942, a pair of violent...
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