Priorities, Guidance & Concepts

Marines

Priorities, Guidance & Concepts

Training and Education 2030

This report sets a new direction, describing how we will transform T&E for the future force. It incorporates best aspects of our time-tested process of making Marines, feedback from Marines in the FMF, and lessons learned from years of force-on-force (FoF) exercises into explicit guidance for improvements to T&E. This report explains the lessons we have learned and how those lessons will be used to make improvements. The report also identifies areas requiring further study so that we can broaden the scope of our organizational learning across the entire training and education enterprise.

Force Design 2030: Annual Update May 2022

This report describes progress to date on the United States Marine Corps’ Force Design 2030 (FD 2030) modernization effort. This year’s report explains the current state of our modernization effort by reviewing the progress we have made toward our goals in the past year, providing my direction to the Marine Corps on steps requiring action now, and identifying issues needing further analysis to support future decisions.

33rd Anniversary of FMFM 1 – Warfighting

A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS Thirty-three years ago on this date, the 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Al Gray, published Fleet Marine Force Manual 1 - Warfighting. This "little white book" was, and is, one of the most important statements our Service has ever made about how we understand the essential foundations of our profession: what war is, how we prepare for it, and how we fight when it comes. This anniversary is an appropriate time for us to pause and consider the impact of Warfighting, what it means for us today, and where we need to go with its ideas in the future.

A Concept for Stand-in Forces

We have been here before. Over the course of our history, Marines have often been on the leading edge of our Nation’s forward deployed forces, sensing the environment and reassuring our allies and partners.

Talent Management 2030

Seven decades after its creation, the Marine Corps personnel system is overdue for a fundamental redesign. Our organization, processes, and approach to personnel and talent management are no longer suited to today’s needs and incompatible with the objectives of Force Design 2030.

Talent Management 2030: Executive Summary

Bottom line. Talent Management 2030 (TM2030) directs a series of changes that will transform our service's processes, policies, and approach to human capital management.

246th USMC Birthday Message

On 10 November 1970, Commandant Chapman challenged all Marines, active and inactive, young and old, deployed or recently returned from combat, "not to look back, but instead, to look to the future." He insisted that we celebrate our anniversary, "not as an end of almost two centuries of dedicated service, but as preparation for new service, new dedication, and new achievement." Those sage words resonate across time and are as applicable today as they were 51 years ago.

Preparing for the Future: Marine Corps Support to Joint Operations in Contested Littorals

Over the last five years, the U.S. defense establishment has begun to grapple with the implications of the advent of a radically more complex and challenging strategic epoch. The return of great-power competition and the continuing threats of regional rogue states and violent nonstate actors challenge our Nation’s interests amid an ongoing “revolution in technology that poses both peril and promise.”

HAC-D Department of the Navy Posture Hearing - April 29, 2021

Chair McCollum, Ranking Member Calvert, and distinguished members of this committee, thank you for this opportunity to present the annual report on the Marine Corps. More importantly, thank you for your continued support and leadership over this challenging year. I believe strongly that major change in existing force structure and ways of doing business are needed in this era of renewed great power competition. The strategic environment the Marine Corps and joint force operate in has changed, as has the domestic context as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 and related relief measures. We must therefore make appropriate adjustments to our investment plans to ensure a proper return on the taxpayers’ investment. The promotion and sustainment of the Marine Corps that our nation and fleets will need in 2030 and beyond requires your continued active support.

Force Design 2030: Annual Update (April 2021)

This report describes the progress we have made over the past 12 months in redesigning the force to better fulfill our role as the nation’s naval expeditionary force-in-readiness. The scope of change required is a generational undertaking - one that will not be completed during a single commandant’s tenure.

Commandant of the Marine Corps