Fighting the MAGTF across New Domains: Versatility to Empower the Middleweight Force

Abstract

The future operating environment is characterized by increasingly disparate adversaries enabled by globalization and increasingly agile communications. The Marine Corps is challenged to maintain service competency as a crisis response force and secure littoral access while pursuing means to develop capabilities in future warfare domains like cyberspace. an opportunity emerges to reexamine how the Marine Corps could train and organize to support current operational plans, provide enduring combat capabilities, and adapt to the future operating environment in order to improve scalability and rapid response of the "expeditionary force in readiness." This paper suggests implimentation of a dual-track MOS concept may provide opportunity to add depth to low-density occupations while adding the critical skills needed to operate in emerging warfighting domains, thus developing a versatile force for future war.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 06, 2016
Accession Number
AD1178763

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  • Benjamin M Davenport

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  • Marine Corps University

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