Massive 2021 U.S. Naval Drills Will Include Multiple Carriers and Amphibious Ready Groups
The Navy and Marine Corps plan to conduct a large scale exercise involving multiple strike groups and multiple numbered fleets…
Navy, Marines Will Need Recapitalized Sealift, Logistics Capabilities to Succeed in Pacific Operations
The Navy and Marine Corps need to grow their capacity to move people and supplies to and around a contested…
Navy Officials Reveal Details of New $100M Light Amphibious Warship Concept
The Navy and Marine Corps are eyeing a 200- to 400-foot Light Amphibious Warship that would carry about 75 Marines,…
Navy, Marines Eyeing Further Integration In Unit-Level Tactics, Budgetary Decisions
The Navy and Marine Corps are further putting their money and their effort towards greater naval integration, as the services…
Marines’ Land Systems Acquisition Portfolio Highlights Importance of Naval Integration, Littoral Operations
Navy and Marine Corps acquisition efforts are increasingly colored by the services’ focus on boosting naval integration between the services…
Report to Congress on Navy Light Amphibious Warship
The following is the Aug. 28, 2020 Congressional Research Service report Navy Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) Program: Background and Issues…
Marines, Navy Already In Industry Studies for Light Amphibious Warship, In Bid to Field Them ASAP
This post has been updated to add that the LAW ships would come out of the Navy shipbuilding budget. The…
Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, 26th MEU Return From 7-Month Deployment
The more than 4,000 sailors and Marines of the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit wrapped…
Marines Look to Two New Ship Classes to Define Future of Amphibious Operations
The Navy and Marine Corps are looking to quickly overhaul their Cold War-era way of moving Marines around, with the…
Marines Testing Regiment at Heart of Emerging Island-Hopping Future
The Marine Corps is starting to form and experiment with the littoral regiment at the heart of its modern-day island-hopping…