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
One of the brightest guys I know poses three questions, to which I reply, followed by his closing note. See my answers and post your own. These posts seek to give us a better perspective on our world.
After 9/11 the USMC had an opportunity to become great but refused, putting them on a dead-end path.
Our leaders want to wage unending war in foreign lands (unsuccessfully). Let’s remember the nature of war & the price paid by our troops to wage it.
