About the operation of our military. It’s strengths and weaknesses.
Force Design 2030 is the USMC’s plan to smash its traditions and re-configure itself to fight China. See the USMC website and the Wikipedia entry for details. Many retired USMC officers believe this to be an unrecoverable error. Here is a second post explaining why.
Summary: The US Marine Corps’ leaders have begun its largest redesign since preparing for amphibious warfare in the 1930s. See the summary by the Congressional Research Service. It configures the USMC to fight China, and only China. Not to fight the wars that have dominated the world since Korea.Â
A group of archeologists discovers the rambling diary of a tortured soul slowly going mad. There’s no consistent logic, coherent meaning, or even an apparent chronological order to the bizarre episodes scrawled across the tattered book’s pages. But nonetheless, the engrossed readers can’t help but digest the entire manifesto cover to cover. Now the unhinged protagonist is in uniform, sent away to a faraway war zone. Where this war happened, assuming it happened at all, the madman doesn’t say. But he does describe at length what had started as a boring overnight watch.
A brief reflection on leadership, humility, and staying grounded in what’s in front of you. Don’t lose the battle before you even leave the drawing board.
The latest clash on the China – India border has journalists agog and geopolitical experts aflutter with speculation. Most agree that it means we need to spend still more on lavish modern weapons. Here William Lind debunks this nonsense.
