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Don’t Go It Alone: A Top U.S. Marine’s Advice For Modernizing On A Budget

Don’t Go It Alone: A Top U.S. Marine’s Advice For Modernizing On A Budget
U.S. Marines with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force—Crisis Response—Central Command, conduct fast rope training from an MV-22 Osprey while deployed to Southwest Asia, Sept. 16, 2015.

QUANTICO, Va. — As the Marine Corps continues to, shiplike, slowly turn itself away from the insurgent wars it has fought for nearly two decades toward old-school strategic competition, it must lean on larger sister services for major platform development and spend its own money only on Marine-specific gear, according to Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh.Walsh is set to close a 39-year career that ultimately elevated him to deputy commandant for combat development and integration and chief of Marine Corps Combat…

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