SCYLLA & CHARYBDIS
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Earlier this month, I was assigned to participate in a group project for a class I’m taking called “Evolution of Warfare”. It’s taught by a Captain in the marine corps. The goal of the project: to develop a plan to deploy marines in littoral waters in order to counter aggression from the fictional “People’s Republic of Azuria”. The goal of our incursion was to deny operational freedom to Azurian forces while asserting freedom of navigation for civilian vessels in surrounding waters. We chose Scylla and Charybdis as the operation’s designation, a homage to the great leviathans blocking Odysseus’ path in the Odyssey.
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