U.S. Marine commandant says littoral regiment to be set up on Guam

The U.S. Marines will deploy to Guam a littoral regiment capable of a flexible and rapid response in a "few years" as part of efforts to deal with China's growing assertiveness, its commandant said Friday.Gen. Eric Smith, the commandant of the Marine Corps, told a press conference in Washington that the Marine Littoral Regiment is "designed as a counter to PRC aggression," referring to the acronym for the People's Republic of China, to protect Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.Smith said the regiment, due to be based on the U.S. island territory of Guam, "will have responsibility to ra…READ FULL ARTICLE