Marine Corps in ‘civil war’ with mysterious group of senior retired officers

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American Military News by Timothy Frudd 6/12/2023

Current U.S. Marine Corps leadership is hotly divided with retired officers on Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger’s service restructuring plan.

According to The Daily Caller, a vocal group of retired Marine officers believe the outgoing commandant’s restructuring plan will “undercut” the Marine Corps’ fundamental character, as well as America’s national security.

“There is an intellectual civil war going on in the Marine Corps,” Mark Cancian, retired Marine Corps Reserve colonel and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said.

Berger announced the new Force Design 2030 vision in 2020. The plan was based on assumptions made regarding China’s ability to present the most significant threat to the United States over the next decade and the Indo-Pacific as the geographic location that posed the highest likelihood for potential conflict.

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[Maj. Bill Martin]

As a former Marine officer myself, I can attest that this has been a very hot debate, and Gen. Berger's POV on this is probably the minority view.  You can't have three divisions and three air wings dedicated to fighting only one type of war, which is exactly what Berger is doing.