Geography and the Marine Corps at the Strategic, Operational and Tactical Levels

Abstract

In his 2010 planning guidance, the 35th Commandant sees a world in which the Marines are forward deployed and forward engaged in an increasingly complex security environment characterized by numerous inter-linked drivers of instability, including poverty, competition for resources, urbanization, overpopulation and a growing youthful demographic[1]. Accordingly, the Commandant recognizes the growing demand for irregular warfare capabilities and prioritizes better educating and training the Corps to succeed in distributed operations and increasingly complex environments [2]. In line with this priority, geographic approaches to understanding the changing security environment,as well as the people and places where Marines deploy, are of significant operational value.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
AD1062225

Entities

People

  • Vicky Jasparro

Organizations

  • Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anthropology
  • Asia
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Environment
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Human Geography
  • Learning
  • Marine Corps
  • Marine Corps Training
  • Middle East
  • Military Geography
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • New Jersey
  • Social Sciences
  • Southeast Asia
  • Spatial Distribution
  • Training
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Strategic Security Studies