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A Message From the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps

1 September, 2023 Our Corps remains an indispensable element of our nation’s security and readiness. As I write, our 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) is providing our Combatant Commanders with a ready and lethal force which requires no access, basing, or overflight. Simultaneously, I and III Marine Expeditionary Forces are in the Pacific

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Thinking Bigger

2023 MajGen Harold W. Chase Prize Essay Contest: First Place Global and revolutionary over regional and evolutionary >Col Milstein is transitioning from U.S. Navy Expeditionary Combat Command to Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa. He is a MAGTF Officer with a background in tanks, intelligence, and psychological operations, a Middle East and North Africa Foreign

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The Case for Revising Warfighting

Modernize doctrine for the future force >Col Greene is an Infantry Officer and currently the Commanding Officer of Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group. >>Maj Malcolm is an Infantry Officer currently serving as the Operations Officer for 2/8 Mar. He previously served as Officer in Charge of the Advanced Maneuver Warfare Course at Marine Corps

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Contested Logistics in the EABO Environment

A present look and way ahead >1stLt German is currently a student at the Army’s Logistics Captains Career Course. He is a Ground Supply Officer and previously was the Battalion Supply Officer for 3d Littoral Logistics Battalion, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment and has a Master’s of Economics from Purdue University. As the Marine Corps works

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A Message From the Deputy Commandant for Information

The Marine Corps is in a constant “fight for information.” Winning this fight today and every day gives us a lethal advantage in the next battle, the next war. Information and combat power are inextricably linked. Whether it is to ensure trust in the firing solution data for the next fire mission, achieve decision advantage

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Giving “Laser Focus” New Meaning

The Marine Corps is unprepared for the newest tactic of civil unrest events >>Capt Deavenport is an Intelligence Officer currently serving as an Olmsted Scholar in Bangkok, Thailand. When adversaries combine commercially available products with a little ingenuity, they can create new attack pathways that are difficult to counteract. Over the last decade, anti-government protestors

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Radio Communications at Duffer’s Island

Lessons from three dreams >LtCol Haycock is an 8061 Acquisition Professional serving as the Program Management Team Lead for Terrestrial Collection and Human Intelligence programs at Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, VA. My name is Capt Alfonzo, but everyone usually just calls me “Captain A” for short. I command Alpha Company, 1/1 Mar. It

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A Message From the Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics

This is truly an exciting time for our Marine Corps Installations and Logistics Enterprise. Today, we are balancing the demands of a ready force in day-to-day competition with the imperative to support the development of the future force. We recognize that success in a contested environment hinges on the ability of our Marine Corps elements

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MCDP 4, Logistics 2.0

Resilient logistics for the force today and tomorrow “The thoughts contained here are not merely guidance for action in combat but a way of thinking. This publication provides the authoritative basis for how we fight and how we prepare to fight. This book contains no specific techniques or procedures for conduct. Rather, it provides broad

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When New Concepts and Capabilities Meet the Test of Major War

A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDING GENERAL MARINE CORPS WARFIGHTING LABORATORY WHEN NEW CONCEPTS AND CAPABILITIES MEET THE TEST OF MAJOR WAR   Eighty years ago, the final act of the Battle of Guadalcanal (Operation WATCHTOWER, 7 August 1942–9 February 1943) was playing out in the Southwest Pacific. The six-month struggle had taken on epic proportions,

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Infantry Battalion Experiment-30 (IBX30) Phase I Results

NeXt-file released >Capt Hogan is a 1302 Combat Engineer Officer assigned to the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. After serving his first tour at 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, he has spent the past two and a half years working as an integral part of the lab’s Infantry Battalion Experiment 2030 team.   In November, the Marine Corps

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