WASHINGTON, DC -- STRATEGIC CONTEXT: THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF WAR
Force Design 2030, TM2030, Training and Education 2030 (T&E2030), and the pending Installation & Logistics 2030 (I&L2030) are direct responses to significant changes in the security environment. The character of modern warfare, American society, and proliferating technology have transformed in ways that have momentous implications for our all-volunteer Marine Corps. To meet future demands, we must immediately pursue technological advancements to our personnel systems to create a holistic talent management system that attracts, develops, incentivizes, and retains the skilled Marines necessary to improve our efficacy as a force. The coming decades will be complex, uncertain, and ever-changing. We cannot rely on yesterday’s solutions to solve tomorrow’s problems. Our success on emerging battlefields will depend on our force being more highly trained, cognitively mature, and operationally experienced. To sustain our competitive advantage, we must prepare Marines more intensely than we ever have, putting them through some of the most elite entry-level and advanced training in the world. This may include extending the duration of training, which means we will also need to retain Marines for longer to ensure our crisis response force-in-readiness sees the full return on investment. As we adapt to changing conditions, our purpose and our warfighting ethos will not change – the Marine Corps will remain the world’s premier expeditionary warfighting organization, maritime in nature, and poised to immediately respond to any crisis.
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