USMC Doctrine Changes

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Marines to get new drone-killing microwave weapon designed for expeditionary ops

Epirus is developing the Leonidas Expeditionary high-power microwave system for the Defense Department's Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter-Swarm (ExDECS) initiative.

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How the Marines are changing their conduct and leadership guidance

The Marines are updating key guidance documents that have remain largely unchanged for decades.

www.militarytimes.com

 

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Marines’ training for mortar, rocket systems going virtual to lessen blast effects

www.stripes.com

 

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Dissecting China’s purported carrier strategy against Taiwan - Breaking Defense

Ben Ho in this op-ed maintains that should China deploy flattops in an anti-access Taiwan strategy, it would likely be as "fleets-in-being."

breakingdefense.com

 

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The Marine Corps Has Gone Off the Rails - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

A new Congressional Research Service report brings harsh scrutiny to the Marine Corps' Force Design 2030, with many in Congress and the Department of Defense

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These Marine units will field new mobile command vehicle in 2025

Elsewhere in the Corps, Marines conducted the service’s first organic rebuild of a JLTV engine at a Defense Department depot.

www.militarytimes.com

 

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Island-fighting doctrine makes Marine jungle training on Okinawa trendy

The potential for conflict in the Indo-Pacific has heightened the importance of jungle warfare training in recent years.

www.stripes.com

 

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Marines will spend nearly $1B to develop littoral warfighting, upgrade tactical systems

ManTech will do both jobs under two five-year contracts.

www.defenseone.com

 

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How the Marine Corps Is Changing to Keep Talented Marines in the Service

For decades, the Marine Corps incurred a "remarkably high turnover rate" among its first-term Marines as it prioritized, and was arguably dependent on, a "recruit and replace" model, according to Talent Management 2030.

www.military.com

 

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Marines draw new policy line: ‘We will not separate families’

Marine Corps officials are getting more explicit about a policy that inspired the creation of a coordinator role for dual-military married couples.

www.militarytimes.com

 

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Marines continue to make female infantry officers, with little fanfare

Women are now making it through the course with a success rate of better than 50%, though the number of volunteers opting to attend remains low.

www.militarytimes.com

 

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Marine gender study reveals importance of ‘explosive strength’

A major predictor of training injury and attrition was reduced muscular power and lower relative peaks in explosive strength, the study found.

www.militarytimes.com

 

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Let's Talk About the U.S. Marines Reopening WW2 Airfields To Prepare For Future Scenarios

After the first one in the Pacific few months ago, the USMC renovated and reopened another WW2 airfield in North Carolina which will serve as a

theaviationist.com

 

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Marines can now reenlist early, some for up to 15 years

Marine Corps initiatives have already yielded historic retention results, with the Corps hitting 114% of its annual retention goal in Fiscal Year 2024.

www.militarytimes.com

 

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In quiet shift, Marines allow mixed-gender DI teams to train recruits

A typical integrated team will have three DIs of one gender and a fourth of the opposite gender, with most featuring three male instructors and one female.

www.militarytimes.com

 

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The USMC is likely to see quite a bit of turnover in it's upper ranks soon.

In other news (though possibly soon to be rendered redundant by the likely demise of the 'missile marines' under the new administration):

Ενίσχυση Πεζοναυτών: Αξιολόγηση αυτόνομων οχημάτων εκτόξευσης πυραύλων ROGUE Fires - Futurewarfare

Το Σώμα Πεζοναυτών των ΗΠΑ ανέθεσε στην Oshkosh Defense ένα πρωτοποριακό συμβόλαιο για την ενσωμάτωση του πακέτου αυτονομίας της Forterra στο Remotely

futurewarfare.gr

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