The Navy and the Marine Corps are teaming up to streamline command and control of amphibious and crisis response elements in Indo-Pacific, creating a new task force that will experiment with new maritime concepts and technologies. Task Force 76/3 blends the staff of the Navy’s Expeditionary Strike Group 7 and the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade ahead of a year-plus campaign to understand what future naval operations in the Pacific ought to look like. The move is similar to the 2016 creation of