The United States Marine Corps has not completely abandoned armored combat vehicles, but under its radical Force Design modernization initiative, the service made the strategic decision to divest all of its M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks. This historic shift was executed to restructure the Marine Corps away from heavy, ground-heavy land combat reminiscent of Middle Eastern land wars and refocus its core mission on naval expeditionary warfare, amphibious island hopping, and maritime deterrence in the Indo-Pacific region, where heavy tanks are logistically impractical to transport and deploy.
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