The Case for Change
Meeting the principal challenges facing the Corps
8www.mca-marines.org/gazetteMarine Corps Gazette • June 2020Ideas & Issues (Force desIgn)The United States Marine Corps I lead in 2020 finds itself, like the rest of the U.S. defense es-tablishment, at a crossroads. The passing of our Nation’s “unipolar moment†and the emergence of revisionist great power competitors in China and Russia, coinciding with a sea change in the character of warfare driven by social and technological change, demands that we move rapidly to adapt to the cir-cumstances of a new era.This article lays out the case, as I see it, for the sweeping changes the Marine Corps needs to make to meet the principal challenges facing the institution: effectively playing our role as the Nation’s naval expeditionary force-in-readiness while simultaneously modernizing the force to play its necessary roles in the operating environment described in the National Defense Strategy (NDS)—and doing both within the fiscal resources we are provided. Deep institutional change is in-evitable when confronting modernization on this scale, and that type of change is hard. The urgency of change and the institutional reform and innovation necessary to achieve it
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