Jerry McAbee
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U.S. Marine Corps
From Force Design To Force Drift: The Challenge Facing the 40th Commandant
When the 40th Commandant of the Marine Corps takes office in 2027, he will inherit a Marine Corps struggling to define its role in the Nation’s...
U.S. Marine Corps
Rethinking the Role of the Marine Corps in National Security
The role of the Marine Corps in national security is too important to be determined solely by the Congress, Department of War, or Navy Secretariat....
Military Strategy
The Marines Must Think Bigger Than Small Units
An oft-cited military maxim holds that strategy without tactics is the slowest path to victory, while tactics without strategy is the noise before a...
U.S. Marine Corps
Vision 2035: Restoring Marine Corps Capabilities to Fight and Win
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U.S. Marine Corps
Marine Corps Global Response in the Age of Precision Munitions
Editors Note: The graphic represents the Marine Corps 9-1-1 force, a capability quickly eroding under Force Design 2030. Photo; A graphic created as a...
U.S. Marine Corps
Marine Corps Stand-In Forces: A House of Cards
How did the United States Marine Corps transform itself from the world’s premier expeditionary force-in-readiness to a poor parody of the French...
U.S. Marine Corps
Duplication and Obsolescence: The Marine Corps' Missile Dilemma
In 2019, the 38 th Commandant of the Marine Corps began restructuring and reorganizing the Marine Corps to better assist the United States Navy in...
In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense
The sUAS Tactical Trifecta
By Bryan T. Woody • RealClearDefense
The Revolutionary War: When Strategic Options Share the Same Weakness
By Henry Yep • RealClearDefense
The Houthis Are Testing the Limits of Collective Defense
By Saima Afzal • RealClearDefense
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense
Northrop Grumman Breaks Out the Big Guns at AUSA
By Daniel Terrill, Defense News
Army Pursuing Diverse Array of New Anti-Air Interceptors
By Trevithick, The WarZoneWho Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki, RCD
F-35C Lands for the First Time on a Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
By The Aviationist
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