A Light Infantry Force: Returning to the Past to Confront Tomorrow's Conflicts

Abstract

After decades of fighting lowintensity, counterinsurgency conflicts, and of being forsaken for advanced programs deemed more important, can the Marine Corps posture its infantry force to confront future adversaries that will seek to utilize unconventional tactics that take advantage of a complex operating environment designed to offset our conventional strengths. This paper contends that to fight and win in a future operating environment, the Marine Corps must return to the original interpretations of maneuver warfare doctrine, avoid an overreliance on technology, and utilize the 2016 Marine Corps Operating Concepts key drivers of change to bring about an infantry reawakening a light infantry reawakening.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 10, 2017
Accession Number
AD1176623

Entities

People

  • Christopher T Tierney

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amphibious Operations
  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Army
  • Artillery
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Battlefields
  • Central Europe
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Doctrine
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Environment
  • Europe
  • Flat Trajectories
  • Gray Zone
  • Hybrid Warfare
  • Infantry
  • Information Operations
  • International Organizations
  • Maneuvers
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • Military Strategy
  • Military Tactics
  • Training
  • Unconventional Warfare
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

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