Ideas & Issues - Marine Corps Association

General Alfred M. Gray, Jr – Warfighting Innovator

The Marine Corps lost one of its great and visionary leaders on 20 March 2024. In the many public eulogies that marked Gen Alfred M. Gray’s passing there were three

A Culture of Innovation Drives Acceleration!

Rapid response to Corps’ modernization efforts Innovation—the discovery of new ideas, methods, or technologies—is a necessary but insufficient condition to achieve the dominant warfighting capability edge needed to address both

10th Marines

Artillery modernization and support to the 2d MarDiv The release of Force Design 2030 has precipitated significant changes in the structure of 10th Mar. The regiment maintains a two-battalion structure

Project EAGLE

Reorienting Marine Aviation’s Lift Vector toward 2040 Societal divisions, state tensions, and contested international norms are setting conditions for a volatile and potentially dangerous future. Although these conditions are not

Warfighting Through Data-Centricity

Outmaneuvering through Information Information is a critical element of all military operations. This should not surprise us as our observe, orient, decide, and act (OODA) loops are fed by, make

Information in Marine Corps Operations

Information and the changing character of warfare >Mr. Uchytil is currently a defense contractor for Troika Solutions and provides support to the Information Plans and Strategy Division, Deputy Commandant for

Fighting Smart

Information in 21st-century competition, deterrence, and warfare >LtGen Glavy is the Deputy Commandant, Information. >>Mr. Schaner is a retired Intelligence Officer currently serving as the Deputy Director for the Plans

The Role of Logistics in Deterrence

Facing a peer competitor >LtCol Gillett is Combat Engineer Officer who is currently assigned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a CMC Fellow. He was previously assigned to 3d

Leveraging Logistics above the MAGTF

The Joint Logistics Enterprise >Col Angell is a Logistics Officer currently assigned as the Director, Logistics Combat Element Division within Headquarters Marine Corps, Combat Development and Integration. >>Mr. Schouten is

Barracks 2030

Improving quality of life through management, modernization, and material >MajGen Maxwell is the CG of Marine Corps Installations Command. >>Maj Boivin is the Legislative Aide for Deputy Commandant, Installations and

Technology and the Nature of War

Four vignettes >Col Greenwood is a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He was an Infantryman who commanded the 15th MEU (Special Operations Capable), served as Director