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Sensing in the Shadows

Posted on August 21, 2025

By: Sgt Kyle G. McCue

Integrating autonomous and human intelligence for decision superiority in the Pacific Modernizing Intelligence for Distributed Littoral Operations In April 2023, in response to former U.S....

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DESERT SHIELD/ DESERT STORM— Ten Years Later

Posted on August 15, 2025

On 1 March the Marine Corps Association sponsored a PME session on the role of the Marine Corps in the Gulf War. The Association assembled...

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Operation RESTORE HOPE in Somalia

Posted on August 15, 2025

By: Maj Norman L. Cooling

A Tactical Action Turned Strategic Defeat >Originally published in the Marine Corps Gazette, September 2001. The authors biography is available in the original edition. ‘Me...

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Operation PROVIDE COMFORT

Posted on August 15, 2025

By: Col James L. Jones

Humanitarian and Security Assistance in Northern Iraq >Originally published in the Marine Corps Gazette, November 1991. The multinational relief effort to aid Kurdish refugees in...

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Mobilizing the Marine Corps

Posted on July 15, 2025

By: LtCol Douglas Toulette

Why the Service is incapable of repeating June 1950 When the Korea People’s Army stormed across the 38th parallel on 25 June 1950, the Republic...

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Patrolling Hill 55: Hard Lessons in Retrospect

Posted on July 15, 2025

By: LtCol Howard Christy, USMC (Ret)

A company grade officer’s memoir of duty in Vietnam and his reflections on how the Corps adjusted and responded to battlefield challenges quite different from...

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Mobilization as a Theory of Victory

Posted on July 15, 2025

By: Col Ryan Murata and Maj Jason Ryu

Deploying all elements of national defense Vignette  On 1 August 2027—the 100th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army—the Chinese Communist Party launches a preplanned invasion...

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On That First Day on Guadalcanal

Posted on June 15, 2025

By: Col Lawrence G. Karch (Ret.)

Why so little Japanese resistance? During the months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and other Asian targets, the United States was driven from the Philippines,...

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I Didn’t Sign Up for This

Posted on June 15, 2025

By: Maj Mark Thomas and Maj Erin Malapit

Civilian contractors in combat at Wake Island To compete globally in the 21st century, the U.S. military must rely on civilian contractors to manage vital...

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Someone to Light the Path

Posted on June 15, 2025

By: Maj Adam Fountain

Morals, ethics, and self-assessment Whom Shall I Send? “All around our society, you see immoral behavior ... lying, cheating, stealing, drug and alcohol abuse, prejudice,...

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Closing the Gap for Integrated Casualty Evacuation

Posted on May 15, 2025

By: LCDR Toby P. Keeney-Bonthrone, CDR Bhavini Jaiswal, CDR Christopher S. Ibikunle, & CAPT Gerald T. Delk

Logistical operations in a contested environment Operational forces in future wars must be small, agile, and have a low signature to survive the Miniaturized Sensor...

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First to the Fight in Acquisition Reform

Posted on May 15, 2025

By: SES Stephen J. Bowdren

Equipping Marines better and faster: a proactive approach The new administration’s call for a revitalized military demands a fresh look at defense acquisition reform. The...

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