China's marine corps gets ready to kick in doors....The Chinese PLANMC Commander sees his force as totally OFFENSIVE in nature

 via The Tribune

Zhu's paper lists four tasks for China's premier amphibious force. One is acting as an initial assault force, leveraging its combined-arms advantages. The report stated, "It must play a pivotal role in independently conducting operations, breaching frontline enemy defences, while relying on the broader naval warfare infrastructure to achieve strategic surprise, conduct multidimensional assaults, execute elite force raids, seize and control critical points and complete other missions, and rupture enemy lines to penetrate and exploit enemy centers of gravity."

 A second PLANMC mission is seizing and controlling islands and reefs. Chinese marines must be ready to perform integrated amphibious operations, all-domain control and precision maritime strikes. This may mean retaking or capturing enemy-held islands/reefs to establish strongpoints bristling with air defenses and sea control fires, or deterring an adversary from approaching said islands.

 As a third mission, Zhu said the marine corps is a unique force for maritime deterrence. Thus, it safeguards maritime chokepoints, executes strikes to break an enemy's blockade of straits, conducts vessel boarding and infiltrates close to enemy bases to guide precision strikes or conduct special operations.

 Finally, Zhu mentioned the suitability of the PLANMC for overseas operations. "As an overseas expeditionary force operating from the sea to the land, the marine corps can leverage traditional friendly nations as strongpoints, supplemented by the overseas support bases of Chinese-invested enterprises, using overseas garrisons and shipborne prepositioning to create an integrated land-sea force disposition, sustain forward presence, and perform missions such as defense of critical nodes, escort operations and evacuations of Chinese nationals, armed rescue operations and limited punitive actions."

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