Hoorah! Oorah? Or is it ooyah? Moto sounds are hard to keep track of. Anyway here’s a graphic on the changing role of the U.S. Marine Corps, America’s oldest fighting force, founded (to hear Anthony Swofford tell it) in a Boston tavern in 1775 “by men with big balls and long rifles”. Now with fewer beaches to storm, those devil dogs have to readjust their military and budgetary strategies. As Gen. James Mattis probably never says, “oy vey.”
Not a lot of data vis to be had here, just took a sift of DoD pdfs and continual hassling of Jennifer Daniel for icon purposes. For tiny pictures of materiel, you can’t beat JD.
—Evan
