{"id":186230,"date":"2019-04-04T07:45:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T07:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186230"},"modified":"2019-04-07T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T08:00:55","slug":"u-s-marines-are-practicing-seizing-small-islands-using-techniques-learned-in-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186230","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Marines are practicing seizing small islands using techniques learned in World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daily Mail.com \u2013 March 22, 2019<\/h1>\n
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U.S. Marines with Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) take a part in a landing operation during a military Exercise Baltops 2018. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The U.S. military is practicing tactics that it last rehearsed more than 70 years ago in preparation for a possibly conflict with China<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was during World War II that U.S. Marines moved quickly from island to island as they fought bloody battles again Japanese forces who were determined to dominate the Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Marine Corps is now re-examining its\u00a0island-hopping strategy for today’s troops, as a possible conflict with China draws ever-closer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit have so far led a series of simulated small-island assaults in Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 31st MEU, supported by elements of the 3rd Marine Division, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing; members of the Air Force 353rd Special Operations Group; and Army soldiers with 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, practiced seizing Ie Shima Island – a place where the Marine Corps often train.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the Marines ‘seized’ the island’s airfield, troops went on to established a Forward Arming and Refueling Point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aircraft including the Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters and C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft were also on hand to assist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rocket artillery units were brought in on board the C-130Js and there were simulated long-range precision-fire missions, Stealth fighters also conducted expeditionary strikes with precision-guided munitions according to Business Insider<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019ll see how frightened America is\u2019 \u2014 Chinese admiral says sinking US carriers key to dominating South China Sea<\/h1>\n

JD Simkins \u2013 Navy Times Jan 04, 2019<\/h2>\n
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U.S. Pacific fleet<\/p><\/div>\n

Another Beijing official has sounded off about the communist nation\u2019s perceived dominance of the South China Sea region, this time coming as an alarming threat of inflicting mass casualties on the U.S. Navy.<\/span><\/p>\n

During a Dec. 20 speech to the 2018 Military Industry List summit, China\u2019s Rear Adm. Luo Yuan, the deputy head of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, added fuel to the South China Sea fire when he stated the key for Chinese domination in those hotly contested waters could lie in the sinking of two U.S. aircraft carriers, according to a report by Australia\u2019s news.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“What the United States fears the most is taking casualties,\u201d the admiral said, before adding that such an attack on two of the U.S. Navy\u2019s steel behemoths would claim upwards of 10,000 lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Luo went on to call America\u2019s military, money, talent, voting system and fear of adversaries the five U.S. weaknesses that can be easily exploited, according to the report.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We\u2019ll see how frightened America is,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Continues \u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US Marines practice drills that could be used in the South China Sea. As China warns that this could be stopped by sinking U.S. carriers <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186235,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186230\/revisions\/186235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}