This overemphasis on conducting the increasingly unlikely large-scale amphibious assault against nuclear-armed competitors has rightfully led the Senate Armed Services Committee, top think tanks, and many observers to question the purpose of the service in the future. Yet, this hasn’t prevented the Marine Corps from continuing to articulate its intent - even in its otherwise visionary concepts - to prioritize this specific forcible entry mission. Many top strategic minds don’t think so and we, as U.S. policymakers take a gamble on 30,000 amphibious troops’ lives attacking a “ rock” in the South China Sea? Robert Leonhard, Fighting by Minutes: Time and the Art of War The purpose of theory is to change current doctrine through intellect rather than the bloody empiricism of extinction. Without a dynamic body of theory, an army will follow current doctrine until it experiences … an “extinction event” - a catastrophic failure.
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