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U.S. Marine Corps

October 10, 2026

This is Secretary Hegseth's Best Idea

For years, I have advocated for evaluating the warfighting and command capabilities of colonels and Navy captains aspiring to be general and flag...

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U.S. Navy

June 20, 2026

Fixing America's Navy

After dominating the world's sea lanes since the end of World War II, surviving challenges from the Soviet Navy throughout the Cold War, the United...

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U.S. Marine Corps

February 14, 2026

Real Innovation for the Marine Corps

In 1989, a group of Marine Corps officers and civilian military theorists wrote several professional military journal articles describing a new wave...

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U.S. Marine Corps

January 21, 2026

A To-Do List for the Next Marine Corps Commandant

If the U. S.

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U.S. Marine Corps

January 7, 2026

DEI Resurfaces in the Marine Corps

About this time last year The Commandant of the Marine Corps fervently declared that the Marine Corps had never adopted Diversity, Equity, and...

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Military Strategy

December 17, 2025

Evolving Marine Corps Force Design

In 2019, the Commandant of the Marine Corps decided to focus on China and protecting naval dominance of the South China Sea (SCS) and China’s “first...

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U.S. Marine Corps

November 10, 2025

The Marines Need to Evolve Back to the Future

It’s hard for senior military officers, particularly a group of them, to admit that they are wrong, but the Marine Corps' senior leadership is inching...

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Military Strategy

October 8, 2025

How to Deter China

When it rolls out its new National Defense Strategy (NDS) and National Military Strategy (NMS), the Pentagon will reportedly de-emphasize China in...

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U.S. Marine Corps

September 25, 2025

Amphibious Warfare is not Dead, Its Only Sleeping

Eighty years ago, U. S.

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U.S. Marine Corps

July 30, 2025

Marine Corps Force Design: A Failed Operational Concept

When the Marine Corps adopted a concept called Force Design as its new warfighting concept in 2019, so called military experts hailed it as a...

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