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摘要

For a while during the 2000s, it was easy to forget that the U.S. Marine Corps was part of the U.S. Navy. As Navy ships patrolled the oceans, the Marines were far away, roaming the battlegrounds of Iraq and Afghanistan. The two seemed like anything but "integrated"- entirely separate, with the Marine Corps barely resembling a sea service. That was then, this is now. It's seemingly a new day. The thinking and momentum at the very top of the two services is changing. And in the coming years, the Navy and Marines could be aligned in ways never seen before. Right now, military leadership is trying to figure out how best to integrate, in budgets and force structure. This push is driven by the services' desire for a more agile and unpredictable amphibious force to keep up in the "Great Power Competition" with the Chinese and Russians -requiring a partnership between the Navy and Marine Corps that hasn't been seen in at least a decade.