Version 7.0

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21st Century Marine Corps Speed, Flexibility,
Agility Globally
Version 7.0
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Exploiting Our Edge

• We are building tomorrows Marine Corps upon our
  enduring ethos
• Warfighting excellence
• Combined Arms MAGTFs
• Expeditionary culture in tandem with our Navy
  partners
• First to Fight

Our forces in the next century must be agile,
lethal, readily deployable, and require a minimum
of logistical support. We must be able to
project our power over long distances, in days or
weeks, rather than months President
G.W. Bush
Challenges ? Concepts ? Capabilities
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Sharpening the Sword

• Strategic Challenges inform our Concepts
• Warfighting Concepts frame our Capabilities
• Relevant Capabilities define our Contribution to
  the Nation

Challenges ? Concepts ? Capabilities
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Strategic Landscape

• The Irregular Threats
• A global radical Islamist insurgency
• Asymmetric warfare fought by decentralized groups
  of terrorists
• Exploitation of failed and failing
  statesintrastate conflicts
• The Traditional Threats
• Regional powers with conventional and (some)
  nuclear capability
• Continued instability created by interstate
  conflicts

Our challenge in this new century is a difficult
one. Its really to prepare to defend our nation
against the unknown, the uncertain and what we
have to understand will be the unexpected. SecDe
f D. H. Rumsfeld
Complex mix of non-traditional traditional
threats
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Emerging Security Challenges

• Developing Balanced Capabilities
• Non-Traditional
• Traditional

Marine Corps Operational Domain
Challenges ? Concepts ? Capabilities
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Sharpening the Sword

• Strategic Challenges inform our Concepts
• Warfighting Concepts frame our Capabilities
• Relevant Capabilities define our Contribution to
  the Nation

Challenges ? Concepts ? Capabilities
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Warfighting Concepts

• Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare (EMW)
• Operational Maneuver From the Sea (OMFTS)
• Ship-to-Objective Maneuver (STOM)
• Sustained Operations Ashore (SOA)
• Seabasing
• Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future) (MPF(F))
• Distributed Operations (DO)(DRAFT)

Operational
Operating
Challenges ? Concepts ? Capabilities
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Seabasing
The Marine Corps will exploit the US Navys
command of the sea to project, protect, and
sustain integrated joint warfighting capabilities

• National capability for global force projection
• Exploits sea as maneuver space 365 days a year
• Requires tools developed from Naval Capability
  Pillars
• Sea Shield, Sea Strike, Sea Base, FORCEnet
• Navy and Marines pursuing integrated logistics
  system
• Enables capabilities of the Joint Force
• Maximizes effects of forward presence
• Reduces dependence on vulnerable bases, steps
  lightly on allies and partners
• Increased options for the President
• Operational independence for the Regional
  Combatant Commander (RCC)

Exploits Distributed Operations globally across
the full range of military operations
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Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future)
Rapid power power projection without a permission
slip
Joint Operations Area
FORCEnet
Sea Strike
Sea B a s e
CONUS
ESG
OBJ
MPG
CSG
High Speed Connector
High Speed Sealift
Sea Shield
A seabased system of systems that enables
rapid Joint Forcible Entry Ops
(JFEO) within 10-14 days
Rapid Joint Forcible Entry (10-14 Days)
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Distributed Operations

• Across the
• Levels of war- Strategic,
  Operational, Tactical
• Range of military operations- Shaping
  Engagement to Stabilization Reconstruction
  (Phase 0 - Phase 4)
• Domains of the battlespace- Air, Land, Sea,
  Space, Cyberspace

Strategic
Tactical
Operational
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Distributed Operations
The Marine Corps of the future will continue to
fight as a combined-arms, integrated force.
Enhancing the ability to operate in a
distributed, networked manner dispersing or
aggregating capabilities against both non-
traditional and traditional threats, will provide
future Joint Force Commanders an additional
method with which to threaten the enemy.

• An extension of Maneuver Warfare an additive
  capability
• The design, planning, and execution of actions
  exploiting networked units or capabilities that
  are separated in space and time in order to apply
  continuous pressure on an enemy to hasten his
  defeat.

We execute Distributed Operations in order to
Appear ambiguous and threateningoperate on
axes that offer numerous courses of action,
keeping the enemy unclear as to which we will
choose.
Warfighting (MCDP 1)
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Sharpening the Sword

• Strategic Challenges inform our Concepts
• Warfighting Concepts frame our Capabilities
• Relevant Capabilities define our Contribution to
  the Nation

Challenges ? Concepts ? Capabilities
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Enhanced National Capabilities
SPMAGTF / MEU

• Forward-deployed Forces
• Persistent Provide an agile networked
  sea-based force for shaping engagement
  Continuous
• Immediate Generate and exploit actionable
  intelligence, employ joint fires, establish JTF
  C2 Within Hours
• Prepositioned Surged Forces
• Rapid Execute Joint Forcible Entry, enabling
  follow-on Joint Force operations
  Within Days
• Decisive Achieving operational level objectives
  with sustainable force reconstituting and
  reemploying Within Weeks

MEU
MEB
MEF
Shaping Engagement
Stabilization Reconstruction
Major Combat Operations
Challenges ? Concepts ? Capabilities
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Exploiting Technology

• MPF(F)
• Enables Rapid employment timeline (10 14 days)
• Sized to preposition selectively offload 2015
  MEB
• Capable of independent employment or with ESG/CSG
• Aviation ordnance stowage/handling/arming
• Survivability enhanced by Sea Shield
• Capable of Joint Forcible Entry when integrated
  with ESG / CSG

• LHA(R)
• Conducts flight ops 24 hours per day for 6 days
  (obj)
• Can operate with composite RW/TR/FW ACE or JSF
  alone
• Either 23 JSF or 28 MV-22 or other aircraft mix
• 23 JSF 100 CAS coverage at surge rate to 200NM
• Enables higher mission capable rate for MV-22
• Optimized for aviation operations

• Connectors
• Inter-and Intra Theater
• CONUS to Advance Base / Sea Base
• Fills the Strategic Airlift gap
• Assault Connectors
• Land surface assault Bn in
  one 8-10 hour period of darkness
• Sea base to objective tactical resupply

MV-22
JSF
EFV
MERS
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Naval Logistics Integration/Modernization

• Navy and Marine Corps moving beyond logistic
  interoperability to seek integration of Service
  logistics processes in order to optimize support
  to daily operations and sea-basing
• Marine logistics modernization will improve
  tactical/operational logistics support to MAGTF.
• Tailor-made to support EMW and Future Joint
  Operating Concepts.
• Integrated approach--People, Processes, and
  Technology

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The 21st Century Marine
Every Marine a Riflemanand more

• Leadership
• Increased decision-making ability/authority
• Training Education
• Historical cultural perspectives
• More complex skill sets
• Intensive tactical training
• Equipment
• Enhancing lethality
• Marine Expeditionary Rifle SquadSystem
• Closing the Digital Divide

It is our leaders from our most junior,
especially our non-commissioned officers, who
have kept the Corps successful and victorious.
General M.W. Hagee
Raising the Bar across the Corps
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Enhanced Marine Corps Capabilities

• Preserving our unique ethos

We will not change what we do
Our most effective weapon remains the
individual Marine who out-learns, out-thinks, and
out-fights any adversary. General M. W. Hagee
We will change how we do it

• Innovating for the future
• 21st Century Marine
• Exploiting Technology

Challenges ? Concepts ? Capabilities
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The 21st Century Marine Corps

• Building on our ethos and ensuring continued
  warfighting excellence
• Fulfilling need for
• Speed in execution
• Flexibility in organization, logistical
  support, and employment
• Agility in thought and intellect
• Prepared to
• Prevail in the war on terrorism
• Persistently engage globally and respond
  immediately
• Decisively engage both traditional and irregular
  threats

We will produce and equip a 21st Century Marine
imbued with a warrior ethos, armed with the
skills and modern capabilities to prevail against
traditional and irregular foes.
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Recommended Reading

• Naval Transformation Roadmap
• Naval Operating Concept
• National Military Strategy
• Joint Operations Concept
• Seapower 21
• Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare
• Ship to Objective Maneuver
• Sustained Operations Ashore
• Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future) (being
  updated)
• Enhanced Networked Seabasing
• Distributed Operations (in-work)

• Strategic Planning Guidance
• (Classified)
• Major Combat Ops JOC
• JFEO JIC
• Urban JOC (forthcoming)
• Military Operations On Urbanized Terrain
• Seabasing JIC

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