Document: 2017 U.S. Maritime Expeditionary Warfare Report
The following is an August 2017 overview of U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Military Sealift Command expeditionary warfare capabilities including ships, aircraft and…
LCU Replacement in Preliminary Design, Anticipating 2022 Fleet Debut
The Navy is doing preliminary design work on its Landing Craft Utility (LCU) replacement now to begin construction within about…
Navy Further Extending Life of Already-Extended LCACs Until Replacement Delivers in 2017
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Navy is further extending the life of Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCACs) that have already gone…
Textron Starts Work on New Navy Hovercraft
Work started Monday on the first of 73 planned hovercraft slated to replace the service’s aging Landing Craft Air Cushion…
Opinion: U.S. Amphibious Forces Are Key to Nation’s Security
As American forces moved toward Japan in February 1945, the U.S. Marine Corps fought one of the most famous battles…
The Floating Shell Game: Tom Clancy’s 1982 Plan to Fire Nuclear Weapons from a Hovercraft
The following is from the July, 1982 issue of Proceedings. It was Tom Clancy’s second piece of published work with the…
The Future of the Marine Corps
After ten years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Marine Corps is retooling and repositioning itself back into…