I'm John Batch, Sir, I welcome Colonel Grant Nusham, United States Marine Corps

Retired Author of When China Attacks.

What we know is fog of war in the Iran conflict. However, over these last days, we've heard again and

again about Marines, U.S. Marines, and a M-E-U, attached to an ARG, ARG, MU-R-G. This is military talk, and I welcome Grant to help me interpret

these matters. Grant, a very good evening to you. The Marines are arrayed in an old-fashioned

presentation. We're going to land on a beach, and we're going to take the island. That's

about 80 years out of date.

But here it is again.

What happened, Grant?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John.

Well, it's not actually out of date.

It's always been a possibility.

And I would note that the Marines just as often come in by air these days.

But the significance is you've got the Mu Ark that's been put together. And what that

stands for is basically 2,000 Marines or so in a marine expeditionary unit. And they bring

along aircraft F-35s, helicopters, artillery with them. And they're on Navy amphibious ships, and it's usually three amphibious ships,

one big one that sort of looks like a miniature aircraft carrier, and two smaller ones.

And that is called the Amphibious Ready Group, and that's a U.S. Navy unit.

So you combine the two, and you suddenly have the ability to combine air, sea, and ground forces and move them around

anywhere that the ocean lets you, which is pretty much anywhere.

And it gives a commander the option to put forces ashore that he doesn't have if he's

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