Shaping a Way Ahead for the Marines in the Pacific: A 2021 Overview
09/10/2021
When I visited MARFORPAC in 2014, it was the beginning of what the Obama Administration called the “Pivot to the Pacific.”
But that really did not happen as the Russians seized Crimea, and the wars in the Middle East ramped up.
Those demand sets still weigh heavily on the U.S. military and its ability to generate forces for Pacific operations.
But the basic template for the Marines in the Pacific was already being shaped, namely, a distributed laydown, from which the Marines could operate with greater strategic depth than being in Hawaii and on the West Coast of the United States.
In a 2014 article I highlighted the basic template which was being put in place as follows:
https://sldinfo.com/2021/09/shaping-a-way-ahead-for-the-marines-in-the-pacific-a-2021-overview/
