PREVIEW: #USMC: #PRC: Conversation with Colonel Grant Newsham, USMC (ret) re the now five year old plan, FD 2030, to transform the Marines into something akin to the Coast Watchers who helped defend the US forces on Guadalcanal in 1942-43. With missiles a
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | A conversation with Grant Noisham, the author of When China Attacks, |
| 0:36.0 | retired U.S. Marine Colonel, about a plan for the Marines to remake themselves by 2030 into a small force that moves around an |
| 0:46.1 | islands in the Pacific attacking Chinese ships when available. This is called FD 2030. It's a plan and the Marines have |
| 0:56.1 | implemented it are now implementing it and Grant has some sharp things to say |
| 1:00.8 | about the plan and how you can't anticipate what the next battle space |
| 1:06.0 | is going to look like. |
| 1:07.8 | The old proverb was, they always fight the last war. |
| 1:12.2 | His grand Nusham on the plans for the Marines and what |
| 1:16.1 | the limitations might be in the plans? In theory it's kind of like that. |
| 1:22.6 | Imagine if the Coast Watchers, |
| 1:24.7 | is brave, mostly Australians, but some others |
| 1:29.1 | on the islands outside, north of Guadalcanal |
| 1:32.1 | and in the southwest Pacific, if they had had long-range missiles. |
| 1:35.6 | The Japanese Navy would have had a very hard time getting down to Guadalcanal to attack the |
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