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| Apr 12, 2023 at 22:42 | comment | added | Rich | The British mounted an amphibious assault in the Falklands war. (They had very limited carrier based air capacity). Royal Marines, Paras and line troops were all involved. Also, in the days of cannon, Marines weren't just there to beat recalcitrant sailors, they were also tasked to board enemy ships in close combat. | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 21:23 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | How could the role of the US Marines have anything to do with politics except that of course, the Marines are expected to carry out the US' policies? | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 13:56 | history | protected | got trolled too much this week | ||
| Apr 11, 2023 at 12:17 | comment | added | phoog | @AmiralPatate my point is that despite the US designating the marines as a branch of the "military" rather than of the "navy," as most countries do, they are in fact not entirely "separate," neither at the highest level (being part of the Dept. of the Navy) nor at the lowest (military academy; combat medicine). | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 8:42 | comment | added | AmiralPatate | @phoog They are officially separate branches, because there's the US Navy (the service branch), and there's the Department of the Navy above (a department of the Department of Defense). The US Navy and USMC are distinct branches of the Dept. of the Navy. Likewise, the Naval Academy is under the Dept of the Navy, not the US Navy. It is confusing because you can call them both "the Navy". A similar situation exists with the Air Force and Space Force, under the Dept. of the Air Force. | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 23:14 | comment | added | phoog | @Darren the USMC is not exactly a "separate branch of the military." It is also part of the US Navy inasmuch as the commandant reports to the secretary of the navy. This reflects marines' original function of enforcing discipline aboard ships in addition to serving as an infantry force operating from the ship. The historical relationship is also seen in the fact that the Marine Corps has no medical service, because combat medics attached to marine units are all navy personnel, and in the fact that Marine Corps officers are trained at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 20:53 | comment | added | Mast | "made her assume that U.S. Marines operate exclusively in, well, marine environments" They do desert training as well, so that argument falls apart pretty quickly. | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 18:32 | history | edited | AJV | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2023 at 12:58 | answer | added | Nobody | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 10:26 | comment | added | Darren | Just pointing out, in case you weren’t aware; the US is, I believe, the only country that has a marine corps as an actual separate branch of the military. In other countries they fall under one of the usual three (probably Navy mostly, for example the Royal Marines in the UK). | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 1:18 | comment | added | got trolled too much this week | "combined arms" has little to do with this Q as phrased. The Marines have their own air force (!), for instance, with a couple hundred aircraft of their own en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… So pretty capable of combined arms on their own. They did give up main battle tanks recently though; they had about 400. This has been pretty controversial. youtu.be/r-3HC7BwT0g?t=208 | |
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| Apr 9, 2023 at 20:06 | answer | added | ohwilleke♦ | timeline score: 16 | |
| Apr 9, 2023 at 17:16 | comment | added | Italian Philosophers 4 Monica | What beachfront battle is this? Inchon or Iwo Jima are also pretty famous... | |
| Apr 9, 2023 at 17:14 | answer | added | Italian Philosophers 4 Monica | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 9, 2023 at 16:20 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 24 | |
| Apr 9, 2023 at 15:11 | comment | added | AJV | Their relevance was not questioned, rather their role as a distinct branch under a modern combined arms approach. Moreover, the "recent" (79 years ago) beachfront assault which existed before widespread airlift transport (and before the Air Force was an independent branch) was neither developed nor led by Marines as far as I know, despite it being their intended forte. Some amphibious operations did occur recently, and were critical in, the Gulf war, but again, the question is whether it is so significant and distinct as to warrant an independent branch under a combined arms approach. | |
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| Apr 9, 2023 at 14:17 | comment | added | wrod | Wouldn't the fact that there hasn't been a massive beachfront assault, in recent history, make Marines only more relevant? If they are the ones who develop the most advanced amphibious landing tactics, then if such a tactic becomes necessary in the future, it would have to be made available by the Marines, who develop it. | |
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