http://www.captainsjournal.com/2007/10/17/the-future-of-the-marines/ News & Commentary on Warfare, Policy and Counterterrorism Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:35:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.captainsjournal.com/2007/10/17/the-future-of-the-marines/#comment-23326 fumento Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:21:07 +0000 http://www.captainsjournal.com/2007/10/17/the-future-of-the-marines/#comment-23326 Well, the amphibious landing thing is kind of dead and anyway, as the Army showed in WWII, they can do amphibious landings too -- although it's hard to believe the Marines would have screwed up so badly at Anzio. My father was serving in Italy at the time and probably came close to being thrown into that fight. Which quite possibly means I wouldn't be here today to make this post. Well, the amphibious landing thing is kind of dead and anyway, as the Army showed in WWII, they can do amphibious landings too — although it’s hard to believe the Marines would have screwed up so badly at Anzio. My father was serving in Italy at the time and probably came close to being thrown into that fight. Which quite possibly means I wouldn’t be here today to make this post.

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