New Maritime Strategy to Focus on 'Soft Power' (Washington Post)

[GreatAmerican]

<p>Maritime strategy suggests larger role for Corps in security at sea</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/navy_marinedetachments_071020w/[/url]”>http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/navy_marinedetachments_071020w/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Leathernecks could deploy aboard various Navy and Coast Guard ships to provide force protection and conduct boardings at sea, according to language in the sea services’ new maritime strategy. The announcement comes nine years after the Corps disestablished its shipboard Marine detachments.</p>

<p>“Marines will continue to be employed as air-ground task forces operating from amphibious ships to conduct variety of missions, such as power projection,” says the maritime strategy, released by the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard on Oct. 17. “But they will also be employed as detachments aboard a wider variety of ships and cutters for maritime security missions.”…

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