{"id":60509,"date":"2015-06-23T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60509"},"modified":"2015-06-22T19:56:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T23:56:29","slug":"marines-may-deploy-with-allies-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60509","title":{"rendered":"Marines may deploy with allies&#8217; ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story sounds really weird, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2015\/06\/21\/marines-amphibious\/28935549\/\">USAToday<\/a> claims that US Marines may go down to the sea in other countries&#8217; ships because of a shortage of US vessels. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The initiative is a stopgap way to deploy Marines aboard ships overseas until more American vessels are available, said Brig. Gen. Norman Cooling, deputy commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Navy has 30 amphibious ships but says it needs 38 to fulfill war fighting requirements. It won&#8217;t reach that level until 2028 because of budget constraints, according to the Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the Navy has allowed its amphibious capabilities to decline.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Much of the Navy&#8217;s current amphibious fleet is being used in the Pacific&#8230;Fighting in Ukraine and chaos in Libya have raised concerns about the need for forces who can respond quickly to events in Europe and Africa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I think of getting support from our allies, I think of Mogadishu where the troops there were dependent on Pakistani armor to extract them from any difficulties that they might encounter. That didn&#8217;t turn out like we planned. It puts our foreign policy at the mercy of the policies of other countries&#8230;folks who act in their own interests, not ours.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it looks like a result of piss poor planning at the Pentagon, the White House and Congress. This is what a &#8220;peace dividend&#8221; looks like. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story sounds really weird, USAToday claims that US Marines may go down to the sea &hellip; <a title=\"Marines may deploy with allies&#8217; ships\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60509\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marines may deploy with allies&#8217; ships<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}