Whose Marine Corps? Why a Force Design battle is losing sight of the basics
By Gen. Charles C. Krulak (retired)
May 27, 09:23 PM
A custody fight between a parent and grandparents.
That was how former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work framed the increasingly intense discussion about the future of the Marine Corps at a recent Center for Strategic and International Studies panel discussion in Washington.
Using this narrow and legalistic framing, he argued that the child ― in this case the U.S. Marine Corps ― belonged to the commandant, and that the grandparents, the retired Marines pushing back against planned structural changes, should cease contending for custody of the child.
https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/2022/05/27/whose-marine-corps-why-a-force-design-battle-is-losing-sight-of-the-basics/
