CNO, Commandant: Services Have A Good Idea of How They’ll Fight, If Congress Helps Them With the Right Spending Plans
By: Megan Eckstein
May 13, 2021 7:22 PM
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Tyrell Lewis, a student in the Detachment Hawaii Enhanced Squad Leader Course, aims a dummy rocket launcher at the rocket station, one of twelve stations in the initial performance assessment portion of the course, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, April 8, 2021. The course is an experimental proof of concept, with the intent of modernizing training and providing squad leaders with new capabilities. US Marine Corps photo.
The chief of naval operations and commandant of the Marine Corps say they are increasingly clear on how they’d want to fight a peer adversary, what attributes would make their forces successful and what platforms they need to equip that force. Now, they just need help from Congress turning that into a budget everyone can agree upon, they say.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said the Navy and Marine Corps put significant thought and analysis into their 2020 future force design work, which was ultimately approved by former Defense Secretary Mark Esper and his team at the Pentagon before the 2020 election. Though the naval services are working with new Pentagon and White House leadership now to again make their case, Gilday said he was confident that the analysis holds up and points the services in a clear direction that the executive and legislative branches should help support.
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