Not many years ago, Marine Corps strategists and the Commandant declared that long-range precision weapons and ubiquitous satellite surveillance had made amphibious operations too risky, if not obsolete. Any amphibious fleet, the argument went, would be spotted and sunk. The future of the Marine Corps, laid out in a scheme known as Force Design 2030 […]The post When missiles aren’t enough, America still calls its Marines appeared first on Asia Times.