Background articles relative to today’s discussion:

  1. General Jack Sheehan’s opinion piece — March 10, 2022:  Wasteful Spending, a Shrinking Force and the Marine Corps’s Big Bet
  2. LtGen Paul K. Van Riper’s opinion piece — March 21, 2022: Jeopardizing national security: What is happening to our Marips?
  3. Col Matt Jones (Ret) opinion piece — March 2022:  Modernizing the Corps: a response to LtGen P.K. Van Riper’s criticism of Force Design 2030
  4. James Webb — March 25, 2022:  Momentous Changes in the U.S. Marine Corps’ Force Organization Deserve Debate
  5. James Joyner — March 27, 2022:  Marine Force Design Has Been Debated