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Ep 007 “Fixing Fight Club: Kill the Corps”

by | Jan 6, 2025

Ep 007 “Fixing Fight Club: Kill the Corps”

by | Jan 6, 2025

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The US Marine Corps has seen its time and it is now the opportunity to sunset it and wish it well in memorium. Two historical moments have destroyed the efficacy and primacy of the USMC: missiles and the sad Commandant tenure of GEN David H. Berger who will be remembered as the man who murdered the Corps.

The US has not made a contested beach landing since Inchon in 1-19 September 1950 and the era of missiles has made the contested beach landing by maritime connectors and vertical envelopment a murderously expensive undertaking. The non-naval Houthis in Yemen have proven that US and allied naval surface power is a questionable enterprise peripheral to littorals.

It is time to lay the wreaths, acknowledge the contributions, stand to for the swansong and decommission the Corps.

References:

USMC Small Wars Manual

FMFM-1 Warfighting

LtCol Thaddeus Drake, Jr. The Fantasy of MCDP 1: Is Maneuver Warfare Still Useful?

Ronald O’Rourke Navy Medium Landing Ship (LSM) (Previously Light Amphibious Warship [LAW]) Program: Background and Issues for Congress (R46374)

Smedley D. Butler War is a Racket

Patrick Van Horne Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps’ Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life

Heather Venable How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874-1918

David J. Ulbrich Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, 1936-1943

Brett A. Friedman 21st Century Ellis: Operational Art and Strategic Prophecy for the Modern Era

Bing West

No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah

Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War

The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines

The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan

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Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert is the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and a contributor over time to various liberty endeavors. He served in the military for nearly a quarter century and contractor tours after retirement on occasion and was a combat tourist in a number of neo-imperialist shit-pits around the world.

He can be found on twitter at @wbuppert and reached via email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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