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The Marine Corps launched its first ever Marine littoral regiment on Thursday, a unit that may have the U.S.'s militaries worried.

The assistant commandant of the Marine Corps told reporters on Monday that admirals don't like the concept.

The current 3rd Marine Regiment will be the base for the new 3rd Marine infantry.

The Corps will enter the post Global War on Terror era with a new unit designed based on thousands of hours of war games.

New gear will be ushered into the Pacific theater.

Not everyone is sold on the new concept or buys the Marine Corps because of the fear of potential enemies.

Mark Cancian, a retired Marine colonel and current senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, told the Marine Corps Times that they had entered the mind of their opponents.

Cancian said it would be more accurate to say the Chinese player finds it difficult to track down the platoons.

Staying undetected

A littoral combat team, consisting of one infantry battalion and one missile battery potentially capable of sinking ships, is one of three elements of the new littoral battalion.

Smith told reporters that the littoral combat team could deploy in more than 100 Marines depending on the mission.

The Marine Corps would like to use those teams to create and occupy bases widely dispersed across the littorals.

The Marines will be able to sink or destroy enemy ships.

The Corps hopes the small size and dispersed nature of the unit will keep it undetected from enemy sensors for an extended period of time, while the unit's mobility will allow it to run away unscathed once the enemy stumbles upon it.

Smith said on Monday that eventually the Corps will have three littoral regiments.

Since the 2020 release of Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger's Force Design, the Marine Corps has been experimenting with formations and tactics.

Smith said that the tests showed how worried the enemy was about the new Marine Corps formation.

An organization of 75 Marines have the ability to shut down a network to strike an enemy capital and then fade away and move again, Smith said.

Smith couldn't give details about how that information was gathered or assessed because it was classified.

‘It’s all very sensible’

Some are skeptical of the Corps' assertion that potential adversaries are shaking in their boots because of their reluctance to publicly provide data about Force Design 2030.

The war games support the concept of the Marine Corps, but it is not obvious.

Some people are not as pessimistic.

Dakota Wood, a retired Marine and current senior research fellow for the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, told the Marine Corps Times that it wasn't guaranteed, but that there was a lot of intellectual effort put into it.

I think these newly derived solutions will be applicable against a range of tactical scenarios.

Cancian agrees that the Marine Corps needs to be more focused on threats like China.

The retired Marine said that this was the first major introduction of war fighting concepts in the Marine Corps since the introduction of helicopter warfare during World War II and the Korean War.

Most of the changes that have been made to the Corps since the late 1940s came out of weaknesses exposed on the battlefields.

Force Design 2030 has been developed and tested through simulations and field exercises that allow the Marine Corps to make its own assumptions about the enemy's capabilities.

Cancian said that it was good that the Marine Corps was conducting them.

Confirmation bias can make its way into the Marine Corps analysis process.

He said that it is important for the Marine Corps and outside observers to constantly question the studies and experiments. The Marine Corps seems to be moving in the right direction.

Smith said that the Corps is listening to small unit leaders who are running Marines through these exercises to figure out what is working and what is not.

Smith said that they are constantly adjusting the size of an infantry battalion, the number of missiles a unit needs to carry, and the signature that they will put out.

The things are moving, but our direction has not changed, and the adversaries don't like what you're doing.

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