Compass Points - Where We Have Been
The Story of the Marine Corps
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Compass Points is a place for the entire Marine Corps community and the broader national security community to join together and engage in productive discussion and discourse about the future of the Marine Corps.
There are disagreements. Strong minded professionals are going to disagree at times. But there is a common desire to see that the Marine Corps stays strong today and stronger tomorrow.
Our discussions about the future should always be grounded in Marine Corps history, traditions, and accomplishments. Marines of today and Marines of tomorrow are simply building on the accomplishments of Marines who have gone before.
There are many fine books that help maintain the connection with the past and many fine local Marine museums and exhibits, but there is only one National Museum of the Marine Corps. Compass Points encourages everyone, whenever they can, to walk through the doors of the National Museum of the Marine Corps, just outside the main gate at Quantico, and spend time surrounded by the Corps' great history.
The Marine Corps has faced many struggles in the past and faces struggles today, but drawing on Marine Corps history, we will overcome today's struggles and build a better Marine Corps.
Compass Points salutes the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
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https://www.marineheritage.org/our-leadership--team.html
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Compass Points Mission
Provide an independent source of broader thinking, deeper understanding, and better decisions, for a stronger Marine Corps.
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Compass Points Values
We believe the Marine Corps must be responsive, relevant, and ready today, and more so tomorrow.
We believe the Marine Corps is never owned by any small group of people, but is always held in sacred trust by every Marine and friend of the Corps, past, present, and future.
We believe Marine Corps success in garrison, in the field, and in operations is a complex ecology of the physical, the intellectual, and the spiritual.
We believe in the complexity of combat.
We believe good data is good, but waiting for more and more data is not necessarily better.
We believe no information system can or will sweep away the fog of war.
We believe nothing is more uncertain than certainty.
We believe planning is good, but first plans rarely survive first contact.
We believe Marines must prepare to battle skilled, devious, and unpredictable adversaries
We believe Marines must be always ready to locate, close with, and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver, or repel enemy assault by fire and close combat.
We believe in combined-arms, multi-mission capable Marine Corps units that can quickly arrive anywhere, and address any conflict or crisis.
We believe the Marine Corps must experiment with new technology constantly, and adopt it prudently.
We believe in practicing and perfecting proven methods, while also experimenting with and adopting new methods.
We believe in the Marine Corps culture of teamwork, trust, creativity, and courage.
We believe in candid culture among Marines, never cancel culture.
We believe the strength of the Marine Corps comes from the valor at the heart of each Marine. Each Marine draws strength from the entire Corps of Marines. Together, all Marines are joined across time and geography by the unbreakable red stripe of service.
