The Marine Corps currently adds about 30, new enlistees a year. That's going to drop in the years ahead, Smith said. You're going to want to make sure that you are the most qualified,'" the general said. And I hope everybody's ready to compete. The changes will also affect who the Marine Corps is recruiting. Prospective Marines need to thrive in complex environments where they could lose communication with their commanders. Smith stressed that Marine brass aren't saying every leadership position a sergeant fills now will become a gunnery sergeant billet.
With the right training and through experimentation, they may find that lower-ranking Marines can qualify for the roles. As a largely young force, the Marine Corps puts a great deal of leadership responsibility on its NCOs.
Corporals and sergeants made strategic decisions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even if there are fewer of them, Smith said he doesn't see that aspect of the service's culture and leadership changing.
The Marine Corps' future warfighting strategy centers around expeditionary advanced base operations, a concept that could spread a small team of 75 across an island in the Pacific, where they'll be tasked with defending sea and airspace from ashore to ensure Navy ships can move freely.
In that type of challenging environment, Smith said, "There's always going to be a [private first class] who's told, 'Hey, I need to step up and act like a lance corporal. Follow her on Twitter ginaaharkins. Parents spent hours calling and waiting to grab the first COVID vaccination appointments for children ages 5 to 11 at the The Pentagon brass could be missing the signal Moscow is sending on what it's willing to fight over.
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He frankly states that he is willing to trade Marine force structure for modernization dollars, which would inevitably shrink the size of his service. Since the threat environment will require increasingly distributed operations, Berger wants combined arms operations to be pushed from infantry companies down to individual rifle squads and reconnaissance teams. Even more importantly, however, Berger strongly warns against the corrosive effects of commanders who impose too much rigidity on their subordinates while training at home.
Berger deserves credit for identifying it so clearly and stressing how much it undermines effective warfighting. Throughout the planning guidance, Berger highlights the growing warfighting contributions of marines who are not on the front line. He also takes on the deeply egalitarian ethos of the Corps, which holds that all marines are elite, by repeatedly insisting upon the need to single out and reward top performers while simultaneously ushering out those who do not measure up.
The Corps continues to pose the greatest cultural barriers to female servicemembers taking on a full range of roles, especially in ground combat units. Only the Marines still run gender-segregated initial entry training , which sends a message to all marines that there are different expectations for women, and which perpetuates disparities throughout the service.
The cover of the document takes a small step forward on this, featuring a female Marine battalion commander marching in front of her troops.
As Chris Brose notes , the Air Force is deeply over-invested in short-range manned tactical fighters. The Air Force desperately needs to reduce its F buy and start procuring smaller, unmanned, and eventually largely autonomous aircraft, just as Berger plans to do for amphibious shipping and watercraft.
Second, the Air Force needs to partner closely with the Marine Corps to better integrate their operating concepts for a major war in the Pacific. Air Force leaders should increasingly plan to work with — and perhaps even rely upon — the Marine Corps for missions to seize and protect advanced bases, provide elements of air defense, and conduct long-range fires against enemy platforms that threaten air operations.
Increasingly dispersed Marine rifle squads and recon teams should also be authorized to call in Air Force strikes — though this would pose a severe cultural challenge to the Air Force, which has long resisted permitting any strikes that are not directed by an Air Force controller or qualified aviator. Berger wants the Marine Corps to be the most agile, flexible, and mobile ground force in the Pacific — which the Army will see as a threat to its evolving role in the theater.
Then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley frequently stressed the need to disperse soldiers on the battlefield, just as the Marine Corps guidance does. The Army should also take a page from the planning guidance and add greater uncertainty and battlefield-like chaos into garrison life, since its culture of over-engineered planning often produces initiative-killing directions such as a page order with annexes for an annual event to clean up trash and pine cones at Fort Bragg. Berger sees the need for platforms that are small, plentiful, specialized, and unmanned or minimally manned so that naval forces can continue to operate effectively inside the contested zone even if they absorb substantial losses.
These large, densely manned platforms are becoming far too valuable to be risked in a contested zone dominated by adversary anti-access and area denial defenses. Early reports suggest that entirely new types of ships may be added , such as large unmanned surface ships and submarines.
Whether the Navy and Congress is prepared to cancel or reduce any significant number of its long-planned billion-dollar warships to resource this transformative shift is another question.
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