Preparing Marine Infantry for 2025: Three Hypotheses

Abstract

The future operating environment (FOE) will be characterized by increased technological proliferation, resulting in a rapidly changing, complex battlefield with increased precision and lethality. Future adversaries will adapt a combination of hybrid tactics and gray zone strategies to achieve their goals. The Marine infantry is not organized, trained, or equipped for the FOE. To innovate for the future the Marine infantry should organize and adjust manpower policies to adapt to the rapidly changing technological complexity, develop organic combined arms capabilities down to the squad level, and adapt training methods to increase the use of simulation and realistic force-on-force training.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 08, 2017
Accession Number
AD1176547

Entities

People

  • Benjamin M. Middendorf

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Age Distribution
  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Department Of Defense
  • Flight Simulators
  • Governments
  • Gray Zone
  • Guided Weapons
  • Hybrid Warfare
  • Marine Corps
  • Military History
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • New York
  • Procurement
  • Security
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Strategic Security Studies