General: Marines Need to Be ‘Grander Thinkers’

[rangerrebew]

General: Marines Need to Be ‘Grander Thinkers’
Posted on September 16, 2021 by Richard R. Burgess, Senior Editor   
 

ARLINGTON, Va. — In a potential future of distributed warfare, Marines on the scene need to be able to have a greater understanding of strategy and operations as well as tactics and technology, the Marine Corps’ training boss said. 

“How do find Marines who are … ready to execute mission-type orders and have strategic level effect with tactical-level decision making?” asked Lt. Gen. Kevin Iiams, commanding general Training and Education Command, speaking Sept. 16 in a Defense One webinar.   

“We need to be very, very deliberate in the way we groom our young Marines looking to the future and ensure that we imbue them with not only the right knowledge moving forward but the right education is important,” Iiams said. “We need to make them much grander thinkers, very good critical thinkers because what we’re going to expect them to do in some of these remote places.”

https://seapowermagazine.org/general-marines-need-to-be-grander-thinkers/

[rangerrebew]

He's correct.  As it stands now, Gen. Milley is hogging all the credit for turning members of the military against each other with CRT and PC.  The other branches need to get in the game if they are going to have something to further degrade the military with.

[EdinVA]

IOW, we need someone to take the blame when SHTF...

[skeeter]

I agree. Marines need to be grander thinkers especially when being asked to lay their lives on the line for corporate interests.

[EdinVA]

I agree. Marines need to be grander thinkers especially when being asked to lay their lives on the line for corporate interests.

But we sent a bunch of soldiers to prison for life because they did not disobey a generals orders in a combat zone (abu ghraib). 
So how may of our young troops are going to face the same fate if they start making decisions at a lower level with little to no info on the real mission objective...

[skeeter]

But we sent a bunch of soldiers to prison for life because they did not disobey a generals orders in a combat zone (abu ghraib). 
So how may of our young troops are going to face the same fate if they start making decisions at a lower level with little to no info on the real mission objective...

the decision needs to be made before deciding to enlist.