Ideas & Issues - Marine Corps Association

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

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

Who We Are and Where We Are Going

United States Marines: America’s Expeditionary Commandos >Maj Schillo is qualified in multiple military occupational specialties, to include Expeditionary Ground Reconnaissance Officer. He has deployed to combat multiple times, in both

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

Military Force Design in an Age of Accelerating Technologic Change

Modernization in the Marine Corps >LtCol Williams is a Technical Fellow at Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc and provides strategy and policy support to Headquarters Marine Corps. “The war had

A Strategy for What Winning Looks Like

MARSOF 2040 >Capt Carraway is a MAGTF Intelligence Officer with eight years of experience. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Peace, War, and Defense as well as History from