U.S. Marines at a forward command post in the city of Huế, during the Battle of Huế, Vietnam War, February 1968. (Terry Fincher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In the 1920s a small company ...
After nearly eighty years of continuous service, in March 2020 the Marine Corps announced it planned to retire its three remaining tank battalions in a bid to re-model the force for a great-power ...
A U.S. Marine with 2d Tank Battalion, 2d Marine Division, prepares to depart from a tank lot on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, July 27, 2020. (Lance Cpl. Patrick King/Marine Corps) One year ago, the ...
The U.S. Marine Corps is eliminating all of its tanks and most of its artillery to become a smaller, lighter force. The Marines are shifting towards the ability to seize small islands in the South ...
Tanks, the armored cavalry — it's a division commonly associated with the army, but that wasn't the only branch of the armed forces to use tanks. The United States Marine Corps has worked alongside ...
The Marine Corps is in the process of getting rid of its tanks in preparation for possible island-hopping missions in the Pacific, but the move could lead to a bitter inter-service divide if the Army ...