US Marine commandant: Fund ‘Force Design 2030,’ or leave the Corps in a ‘lurch’
By Megan Eckstein
Dec 14, 04:09 PM
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marine Corps is in a vulnerable position as it prepares for fiscal 2023, having made enough progress on its Force Design 2030 effort that it shed a significant amount of outdated capabilities but is lacking replacements.
“We’re in that middle ground where we’re rapidly changing,” Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. David Berger said Dec. 14 during an online event hosted by the Center for a New American Security.
“I think this is the deciding point where, in the [Pentagon] and in Congress, are they willing to back an organization … that is willing to accept risk, willing to move at speed, willing to discard legacy things, learn as fast as we can — are they going to support and enable that to occur or not? Because if they don’t, then you’re in a bad place because you’ve already gotten rid of, you’ve already divested of, you shed the things you don’t think you need for the future. But the other things are coming, and if you’re left in a lurch there, that’s not a good place to be,” he added.
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