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03/09/2025
By Robbin Laird The Marines like the other services in the U.S. military have been focusing on how to distribute their forces for both their core missions and in support of joint and coalition operations. Force distribution has been necessitated by the growth of precision strike available to both peer competitors and non-state groups or small states which can act by leveraging elements of such capability when the Marines carry out a core mission as…
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