These War Games Will Determine the Future of the Marine Corps

military.com ^ | Apr 13, 2016 | Hope Hodge Seck

[Berlin_Freeper]

Marines from the Corps' East Coast and West Coast expeditionary forces will spend several months this summer in a competition of sorts to help determine how the service will fight and train ten years from now.

This week, top brass from around the Corps are meeting in an executive off-site meeting near Washington, D.C., to discuss a plan that will use war games to shape the future force. It's part of an initiative called Force 2025, said Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, the deputy commandant of Marine Corps Combat Development Command, who described the plan to Military.com during a recent lecture at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Bolt Action Battles

[knarf]

I don't like the sound of this

"The other, he said, is a "revolutionary" approach that emphasizes more "out of the box" ideas and disruptive thinking."

There's nothing in the article that describes what this is all about .... but an East/West coalition converging in/on America does not sound good

[NTHockey]

Not really worried. This seems to me as a path forward to fight new enemies in new wars; NOT fight the last war. That gets people killed.

The Marines have long had a motto of “Improvise, Adapt and Overcome”. Some might consider this “revolutionary” in that individual Marines and units are not bound by rigid battle plans.

I would expect the best of both plans will be adopted. There will be new tactics and strategies that will be implemented now (revolutionary), while some will be implemented over time (evolutionary) as new technology is developed.

Semper fi
Do or die

[Excellence]

This is Quantico and Pendleton getting together to play war games in the Pacific. My son would be participating, but he got bumped by someone with more seniority. Instead he will go next year. They won’t be playing anywhere near the U.S., except maybe a quick stop in Hawaii.

[knarf]

Thanx

Always appreciate cogitant input

[knarf]

Thanx ... the article should say so ... or not be printed

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

War games - Marines are losing all future war by allowing the feminization of their services. The officers owe it to the country to resign en masse. The hill has changed - it’s no longer Iwo Jima, but the sec of defense.

[LambSlave]

Does the Marine Corps have some sort of “future fighting” analytic organization that continuously looks at operational gap analysis, emerging tactics and technologies, and input from operational experiments and COCOMs to propose doctrinal/ TTP changes? In the Army we have three directorates under ARCIC that perform pieces of this role; just curious if USMC has similar.

[Travis McGee]

More PC BS. Sooner or later, we're going to be forced into a major land war NOT on our techie terms. The Russians are even today fielding next-generation jammers that could negate our digital advantages. If we have to fight a war like Korea 1950, where the enemy takes away our tech gadget advantages, where it's a war of rifle and mortar and artillery, we are going to be slaughtered. The men of Task Force Smith in Korea in 1950 were very nearly routed, and they were 10X tougher than today's "time out card" troops (and soon, troopettes).

[Travis McGee]

Amen!

[bravo whiskey]

Because wargames worked so well for the IJN before the Midway campaign. < /s >

[hattend]

This week, top brass from around the Corps are meeting in an executive off-site meeting near Washington, D.C., to discuss a plan that will use war games to shape the future force.