Very crude, but it gets my point across. Islands are not taken by soldiers floating in the water surrounding the island. And as you said, a picture says a thousand words. I know some assault craft are camoed in blue which makes sense. Humans belong on the land, the air and the sea are the domain of the birds, the fish and our machines. Even in the short term, you wouldn't play a 15 minute airsoft game wearing bright blue when everyone is wearing green. If the marines' objective is just the beach head then fair enough, but even a campaign of up to a few days further in-land would be disastrous. An island that is 5km across can't really expect a force rotation either. And I am not comparing PLAMC to USMC, just common sense.
And this, pretty much explains everything.
No doubt the blue works great in the water, but soldiers fight on the land. Ships fight in the sea.
Could you please link the discussion on the camo thread? I would like to learn more and see if there is anything I am missing.
And this, pretty much explains everything.
No doubt the blue works great in the water, but soldiers fight on the land. Ships fight in the sea.
Could you please link the discussion on the camo thread? I would like to learn more and see if there is anything I am missing.
This has been discussed in length in a separate thread in this forum. Now I find a way to make it straighter to explain. One picture is better than thousands of words.
If you have been to tropical islands you will have seen this.
This is the kind of environment that PLAN Marines would fight in the near term. See the colors.
This is the PLAN camo (helmet). Look at the background water.
This is the PLAN camo compared with US Marines camo. Which one do you think is the best to fit the Chinese battle environment?
The US marine corps is more of an Army than a pure marine. It started as a pure marine, but now it has transformed to conduct infantry tasks that usually belongs to the Army. That broadened profile has demanded its camo to fit better on land rather than in the water near the beach.
When and IF PLAN marines begin to extend their mission to more inland tasks, they will change accordingly, but we will have to wait and see. Personally, I don't expect that kind of change (in the way of US marines) because marines are less capable than heavy Army troops on land no matter what. If you beef up the marines, you make them army, then what is the point to have a separate Marine corps to begin with?
The US marine is a totally different story and unique without peers in the world because of politics. It is institutionalized as the ONLY force that US president can mobilize without approval from the congress. So it becomes a min army+navy+airforce.
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