why did the U.S. Marines (an amphibious force) fight in Afghanistan (a landlocked country)?
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As a follow up question, why are the marines a separate service branch in the US military? Historically marines were combat troops on naval ships, and even if the modern USMC is effectively a ‘second army’ dedicated to rapid assault, why was that branch spun off of the navy and made into its own thing in the US but not the rest of the world.
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