When I first.earned of FD 2030 my initial thoughts were, how were they to be inserted surreptitiously given the level of today’s surveillance, how long could they remain in situ without resupply , how the resupply was to occur undetected , method of resupply, how they would effect fire missions in an enemy’s cone of detection/ lethality, and how and by what means they could safely egress ( especially if they were bypassed without even firing a shot) ? Additionally and also disturbing to me was the notion of enlisting so-called field specific experts directly and at advanced rank without boot camp / OCS ? I fully understand the need for specialized training but the Corps has the ability to train and educate from within. The notions and acts of decimating the essence of a fully formed and tactically demonstrated MAGTF seems to be an act of self mutilation. When you remove the punches needed to effect maneuver warfare you have become stagnant and susceptible to the old term ,” to die in place”. Lastly, when the Corps has always had to beg for funding, the notion of cutting current assets to hope that future funding and the approvals necessary from Navy and congress , is like betting on the come with no fallback.
Well I have given my initial thoughts and guess what? After all that I have read from both sides of the issue,……..my initial thoughts are holding fast. Hopefully there are those that take the thoughts of the loyal opposition to heart .
My X to various dozens of Senators and a Congressmen regarding FD follows. Senator Cruz’s Chief of Staff is a Marine Reservist. Rep. Clay Higgins * @RepClayHiggins • 35m President Trump will be inaugurated again next January. The National Defense Authorization Act that we're finalizing and offering amendments for in the House is set to be the most conservative NDAA in decades.
This is Trump's NDAA. I will stand with Republicans to get it... Show more
Replying to @RepClayHiggins
I PRAY YOU ARE READING THIS TEXT....STOP THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE USMC BY CMC SMITH THAT WAS UNILATERALLY UNDERTAKEN BY CMC BERGER. FORCE DESIGN VIOLATES TITLE 10 U.S.CODE 8063 AND THE GOLDWATER -NICHOLS ACT OF 1986. GENERAL CHARLES KRULAK USMC (RET) and GENERAL ANTHONY ZINNI USMC (RET) must be called to testify regarding Force Design.
FD 2030 has never degalt with the issue of the Competition Continuum (CC). This is a DOD term. It descibes potential military crisis situations that range from peace to armed conflict. What this means is, if as in the Indo Pacific the CC is tense but short of armed conflict, would placing armed MLR forces in the inner island rings shift the CC to armed conflict.
A 2021 USNI Norway article presents the solution. Norway likes the SIF concept but says we dont need Marines. We can do the SIF concept for ourselves. Therein is the answer. Allied indigenous forces establishing the SIF defense concept on their sovereign littoral areas do not upset the Competition Continuum. SF
The delusional acylotes of FD 2030 will not go quietly nor change course easily. To do so would be an admission of monumental failure. They do not have the intestinal fortitude to make this right. Drastic times require drastic measures. But, in order to do this there needs to be a non woke Commander in Chief who can request retirements of every single one of these FD 2030 cheerleaders!
Using X is an unconventional method to communicate with Congress. It is like trying to make a hole in one. The Political Element like all the others are in chaos. Fore!
4 more Stops before Amazon delivers the “Melting Point”. I look for to General McKenzie’s candid description of the Biden/Blinken/Austin’s Debacle in Kabul! History of the Viet Nam Retreat is a History they forgot. “How Robert McNamara Came to Regret the War He Escalated
The ‘architect of the Vietnam war’ never formally apologized, but struggled with its consequences for the rest of his life
Kat Eschner
November 29, 2016
mcnamara.jpg
Robert McNamara meeting with Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto
Vietnam was a war the Americans couldn’t win and Robert McNamara couldn’t make peace with.
In April 1964, a U.S. Senator described Vietnam as “McNamara’s War.” Robert McNamara himself, in the middle of his tenure as defense secretary, embraced the moniker, wrote Tim Weiner for the New York Times on the occasion of McNamara’s death in 2009. “I am pleased to be identified with it,” he said, “and do whatever I can to win it.”….
When I first.earned of FD 2030 my initial thoughts were, how were they to be inserted surreptitiously given the level of today’s surveillance, how long could they remain in situ without resupply , how the resupply was to occur undetected , method of resupply, how they would effect fire missions in an enemy’s cone of detection/ lethality, and how and by what means they could safely egress ( especially if they were bypassed without even firing a shot) ? Additionally and also disturbing to me was the notion of enlisting so-called field specific experts directly and at advanced rank without boot camp / OCS ? I fully understand the need for specialized training but the Corps has the ability to train and educate from within. The notions and acts of decimating the essence of a fully formed and tactically demonstrated MAGTF seems to be an act of self mutilation. When you remove the punches needed to effect maneuver warfare you have become stagnant and susceptible to the old term ,” to die in place”. Lastly, when the Corps has always had to beg for funding, the notion of cutting current assets to hope that future funding and the approvals necessary from Navy and congress , is like betting on the come with no fallback.
Well I have given my initial thoughts and guess what? After all that I have read from both sides of the issue,……..my initial thoughts are holding fast. Hopefully there are those that take the thoughts of the loyal opposition to heart .
My X to various dozens of Senators and a Congressmen regarding FD follows. Senator Cruz’s Chief of Staff is a Marine Reservist. Rep. Clay Higgins * @RepClayHiggins • 35m President Trump will be inaugurated again next January. The National Defense Authorization Act that we're finalizing and offering amendments for in the House is set to be the most conservative NDAA in decades.
This is Trump's NDAA. I will stand with Republicans to get it... Show more
Replying to @RepClayHiggins
I PRAY YOU ARE READING THIS TEXT....STOP THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE USMC BY CMC SMITH THAT WAS UNILATERALLY UNDERTAKEN BY CMC BERGER. FORCE DESIGN VIOLATES TITLE 10 U.S.CODE 8063 AND THE GOLDWATER -NICHOLS ACT OF 1986. GENERAL CHARLES KRULAK USMC (RET) and GENERAL ANTHONY ZINNI USMC (RET) must be called to testify regarding Force Design.
FD 2030 has never degalt with the issue of the Competition Continuum (CC). This is a DOD term. It descibes potential military crisis situations that range from peace to armed conflict. What this means is, if as in the Indo Pacific the CC is tense but short of armed conflict, would placing armed MLR forces in the inner island rings shift the CC to armed conflict.
A 2021 USNI Norway article presents the solution. Norway likes the SIF concept but says we dont need Marines. We can do the SIF concept for ourselves. Therein is the answer. Allied indigenous forces establishing the SIF defense concept on their sovereign littoral areas do not upset the Competition Continuum. SF
The delusional acylotes of FD 2030 will not go quietly nor change course easily. To do so would be an admission of monumental failure. They do not have the intestinal fortitude to make this right. Drastic times require drastic measures. But, in order to do this there needs to be a non woke Commander in Chief who can request retirements of every single one of these FD 2030 cheerleaders!
Using X is an unconventional method to communicate with Congress. It is like trying to make a hole in one. The Political Element like all the others are in chaos. Fore!
4 more Stops before Amazon delivers the “Melting Point”. I look for to General McKenzie’s candid description of the Biden/Blinken/Austin’s Debacle in Kabul! History of the Viet Nam Retreat is a History they forgot. “How Robert McNamara Came to Regret the War He Escalated
The ‘architect of the Vietnam war’ never formally apologized, but struggled with its consequences for the rest of his life
Kat Eschner
November 29, 2016
mcnamara.jpg
Robert McNamara meeting with Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto
Vietnam was a war the Americans couldn’t win and Robert McNamara couldn’t make peace with.
In April 1964, a U.S. Senator described Vietnam as “McNamara’s War.” Robert McNamara himself, in the middle of his tenure as defense secretary, embraced the moniker, wrote Tim Weiner for the New York Times on the occasion of McNamara’s death in 2009. “I am pleased to be identified with it,” he said, “and do whatever I can to win it.”….