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New Commandant Sees ‘Large Changes’ For Marine Corps’ To Meet 2030 Force Design

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, October 3rd, 2019

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New Commandant Sees ‘Large Changes’ For Marine Corps’ To Meet 2030 Force Design

Gen. David Berger, the commandant of the Marines Corps. (Photo: DoD)

The Marine Corps is set to implement significant changes to its warfighting concepts and capability portfolio, including divesting from legacy systems over the next several years, as the new commandant looks to implement a vision of what the force must look like in 2030. Gen. David Berger, the Marine Corps commandant since July, told attendees at a Thursday Heritage Foundation event top officials are a month or two away from completing a series of experiments to inform force design priorities,…

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