Marine Corps Gazette Publishes A Better Way Forward
The Marine Corps Gazette is dedicated to the robust discussion and debate of issues important to the Marine Corps. The December edition of the Gazette focuses on looking at FD 2030 from many different views. Today, in its online pages, the Gazette is publishing the first of four articles about a better way forward, Vision 2035. Today’s article in the Gazette will be followed, day by day, by the remaining three articles. Together, the four articles introducing Vision 2035, point toward only one direction, it is time to ‘re-maneuverize’ the Marine Corps.
The four articles introducing Vision 2035 are:
The Preface - Who is Chowder II?
The Concerns - Fatal Flaws in FD 2030.
The Choice - Retreat to defense or retake the offense?
The Vision - Global response, today and tomorrow.
The Preface - Who is Chowder II?
A Preface to “A Better Way Forward” and Its Authors
Marine Corps Gazette - Posted on November 29,2022
Continued debate of the future of the Corps
by Chowder II
. . . We are proponents of innovation and technology as reflected in our Vision [2035] paper, which follows. We have loosely termed our group “Chowder II.”
Chowder II is a diverse group, whose ranks include former Commandants of the Marine Corps; combatant commanders; MEF, MEB, and MEU commanders;
Marine Corps Combat Development Command commanders; Joint Force commanders; division, aircraft wing, regimental, aircraft group, battalion and squadron commanders; a number of logisticians, and staff officers who held demanding assignments at the combatant commands, Joint Staff, HQMC, and the supporting establishment. Also among our group are defense analysts and authors of joint and other Service operating concepts.
We represent thousands of years of dedicated service to the Marine Corps and the Nation. Most of us have served in combat, many in multiple theaters. We also have the support of many active-duty Marines of all ranks, whose voices the Marine Corps appears not to hear . . . .
https://mca-marines.org/blog/gazette/a-preface-to-a-better-way-forward-and-its-authors/