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Audit Readiness Is a Warfighting Discipline

Sustaining readiness The Marine Corps has now done something no other military Service has done: It has successfully passed three consecutive financial audits. That achievement deserves recognition, but it should

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The Currency of Competition

Operationalizing information sharing in the Pacific The Defining Paradox of the Indo-Pacific In the vast and increasingly complex waters of the Indo-Pacific, the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise

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Leading Adaptation at the Point of Friction

What the Expeditionary Warfare School learned by integrating artificial intelligence Military organizations often assume adaptation requires resources, expertise, or institutional direction. In reality, adaptation rarely begins under ideal conditions. New

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The Classroom Is a Battle Lab

Connecting the schoolhouse to the fleet A Marine Corps classroom should be an intellectual crucible and a proving ground. Students should leave seminars with more than a few pithy reflections

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The Future of the Marine Corps Reserve

Professional growth and readiness Proposal: Implementing Enhanced Professional Development Opportunities for Marine Corps Reservists By enhancing the capabilities of the Marine Corps, the reserves play an essential part in U.S.

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Crowdsourced Kill Webs

Human-enabled targeting within the first island chain Humans are more important than hardware, and every human is a sensor. Focusing on humans as a meansof crowd-sourcing intelligence, by as-sisting them

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Lessons from an Unlikely Enemy

What the Marine Corps can learn from the Houthis The Uncomfortable TeacherThe Houthis are not the type of adversary the Marine Corps typically studies for operational inspiration. As a non-peer,

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Exquisite and Insufficient

The fires revolution the Marine Corps missed One of the central premises of Marine Corps Force Design was the evolving relationship between precision and mass. The Marine Corps subscribed to

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Non-Combat Attacks on the Marine Corps

No respect for the Marine Corps  Throughout its 250-year history, the Marine Corps, in the words of 1980s comedian Rodney Dangerfield, “Don’t get no respect.” Dangerfield’s line describes the treatment

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The Floating Forward Operating Base MEU

A blueprint for the Marine Corps of 2035 Executive Summary The MEU of 2035 must evolve to remain relevant in the face of precision-strike threats, ubiquitous surveillance, and rapid technological

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Forward, Flexible, Formidable, and Relevant

Today’s Amphibious Ready Group/Marine Expeditionary Unit Since its inception, the MEU has embarked on an Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and continues to serve as the preeminent example of the contribution

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