SPMAGTF - The Band-Aid For Marine Corps Relevance: MAGTF Composition Challenges and Opportunities in Support of Future Crisis Response

Abstract

Today and for the past five years, the Marine Corps has provided the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF) as the land-based, stationary, forward-deployed choice for the geographic combatant commander (COCOM) in support of crisis response. If the occurrence of a crisis is uncertain and categorized as a testing time, what if the Marine Corps SPMAGTF was truly tested, would it succeed? Would its force structure, which currently consists of a regimental headquarters, an infantry battalion, and limited organic logistics and aviation support, be able to respond to crises against the types of near-peer to peer level adversaries that may exist in 2025? Perhaps the continued employment of the Marine Corps SPMAGTF in support of crisis response is simply a Band-Aid for the Corps ability to respond to tomorrows crises that must evolve or risk being exposed for being woefully inadequate for the threats the nation will face over the next ten to fifteen years.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1179031

Entities

People

  • George J. Iii Flynn

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Environment
  • Force Structure
  • Ground Based
  • Marine Corps
  • Marine Corps Operations
  • New York
  • Security
  • Task Forces
  • United States

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  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.