US Marines new war fighting concept similar to Ukraine's

 Marine Corps Times:

Marines in the middle of recent experiments, unit and equipment changes can look to the Ukraine conflict for real-world previews of how the Corps’ war-fighting concept might unfold in a future fight.

Small units using devastating weaponry to destroy large enemy formations. Sinking ships from shore and then fading quickly into the background. Cycling information so rapidly that the enemy can’t keep up, shattering the ability to run effective combat plans. All of these scenarios are happening now as Ukrainians fight off the Russian military invasion.

But they could also be pulled from the pages of a variety of combat concepts and force design overhaul that the Marine Corps started nearly three years ago.
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Berger first cautioned that many of the lessons of Ukraine are yet to be learned, but do hold value even early in the conflict.

“I’ve learned to be a little patient in learning about a conflict while it’s going on over my career,” Berger said.

And there are themes in the conflict that resonate with recent force changes, but no one answer to all the force design questions.

“I would not say that anything, any singular event in Ukraine validates or invalidates force design or any aspect of it,” Berger said.

But the way the Ukrainians were able to “close the kill chain,” using information, sensing and a ground-based anti-ship missile to sink the Russian cruiser Moskva on April 14 in the Black Sea showed a hint at what Marines will do in future conflicts.

“This is the direction the Marine Corps is going as a part of what the nation needs us to do in sea control and sea denial,” Berger said. “It does serve as an example of the vulnerability of ships, write large, to missiles.”

Ukrainian officials have announced that on Saturday they sank a second Russian ship in the Black Sea with a drone strike.

Multiple media outlets have reported that the U.S. shared intelligence with the Ukrainians, which helped sink the ship. Berger did not comment on specifics of that or other Ukraine incidents and any U.S. involvement.

Marine leadership has been asked repeatedly if their force design is too narrowly focused on China and the Indo-Pacific Command. But Berger, his top generals and staff have said that changes, while aimed at China as the “pacing threat” are applicable to all adversaries in various regions.

Black told reporters that the largest exercise the Corps conducted this year was actually in Europe with Cold Response, a NATO-led exercise with 30,000 troops from 27 countries operating mostly in Norway.
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There is much more.

The Marines have been focusing on using a lighter footprint in their operations and using disbursed small units.  The Ukraine operation appears to be some proof of the concept.