Maneuver Warfare Collection - Marine Corps Association

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Maneuver warfare with an Afghan MAGTF

[...]a call came İn from the Afghan district chief of police, who relayed the scheme of maneuver that the Afghans had constructed over their meal. [...]with the battlespace understanding gained by advising, TFSW delivered precision fires in close support of Afghan maneuver forces, which in turn

MCDP 1

Not just for warfighting

[...]the first two chapters (49 pages) simply condense thousands of years of warfare into explanations specifically geared toward those who have either never been to war or think they've figured it all out. MCDP 1 was not written as a leadership book, but if a leader cannot embrace its principles,

Maneuver Warfare

Not the answer

[...]as a student at the Naval War College with an academic requirement to write a tactical concept paper, the Marine considers the possibility that he might be wrong-that perhaps maneuver warfare should be embraced as doctrine going forward. Asked today, that not-so-young Marine would reply that

Way of War Review of a Review

Letter to the Editor

by Col T.C. Greenwood, USMC(Ret) I am pleased that Col Mike Wyly- one of maneuver warfare‘s founding fathers and a prominent leader of the renaissance that produced our current warfighting

Making Thinking Warriors

An interview with Gen Alfred M. Gray, the 29th Commandant

The approach to "leading by example" expressed by this tough, thinking warrior was developed over a career spanning enlistment in 1950, service as a infantry Marine and reconnaissance NCO through commissioning, command at every level, from the Corps'first signals intelligence unit and later 1st

PME

The MCU President responds

[...]SSgt Matthew P. Petitgout's March 2018 article, "The Reading List and Quarterly PME," suggests revamping both the Commandant's Reading List and Quarterly PME programs to achieve greater educational benefit for Marines. [...]GySgt Jay C. Barnard's "Educational Value" asks our Corps' leaders, "

The Battle of Belleau Wood

Why the Marines won

If you follow the attack path of 2/5 across the wheatfield, toward the end of the assault path of 2/5, there is a kind of depression that would offer cover to a standing man from the German machine guns known to have been off to 2/5's left flank at Hill 169. Responding to this accusation, the

Review of a Review

Letter to the Editor

by Col Michael Wiley, USMC(Ret) I Having been interviewed extensively by Dr. Anthony Piscitelli in writing his excellent The Marine Corps Way of War (Savas Beatie, 2017), I read with

On Cyber

Preparing the 21st century MAGTF to fight in the cyberspace domain

The Marine Corps Operating Concept, published by HQMC in September 2016, asserts, "The 21st century MAGTF executes maneuver warfare through a combined arms approach ... across five domains-air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace." To prepare for armed conflict in the cyberspace domain, the Marine

Ender’s Galley

A forum for discussing information environment operations

Enders Galley (EG) is here to enter the public forum, and ?t will bring to bear the resources and diverse student body of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College (CSC) to develop new concepts for operations in the information environment. Ender's Galley is a Marine Corps University student-led

Reinvigorating Maneuver Warfare Through PME

An infantry battalion model

[...]a battalion compositing as a battalion landing team might want to focus effort on the Leadership LOE İn order to build cohesion and esprit de corps and inculcate commander's intent to the SNCOs and officers newly integrated into the team. Primary responsibilities for this billet are to