Marine Corps Gazette - Marine Corps Association

Road to 250: Cultural Intelligence

By: Col Michael M. Walker

To the Shores of Tripoli: a Case Study >Originally published in the Marine Corps Gazette, February 2016. Editor’s Note: The authors biography is available in the original edition. Preface On 7 April 1805, William Eaton, one midshipman, and eight United...

Talent Management Engagement Platform

By: LtCol Todd Peterson & Capt Susan Figlioli

Our first step toward a modern talent marketplace The publication of Talent Management 2030 in November of 2021 was a watershed moment in the Marine Corps’ transition from Industrial Era human capital management to 21st-century talent management. While over the...

The Eminently Qualified Marine

By: Maj Shane F. Halpern

2024 Chase Prize Essay Contest Winner: Second Place A satire of and recommendation for the Marine Corps Fitness Report “A collection of talented individuals without personal discipline will ultimately and inevitably fail. Character triumphs over talent.” 1 —James Kerr, Legacy “The...

Why I Hate Sun Tzu

By: Maj James M. Stephens

2024 Chase Prize Essay Contest Winner: Honorable Mention Reevaluating a supposedly foundational text I hate Sun Tzu. There, I said it. Go on, make your judgments, roll your eyes, and think: Here we go, this is the same guy who...

Talent: We Do Not Need It

By: Maj Jeremy G. Carter

2024 Chase Prize Essay Contest Winner: First Place Eleven challenges to Talent Management 2030 As stated in Talent Management 2030 (TM2030), “Our modern operational concepts and organizations cannot reach their full warfighting potential without a talent management system that recruits,...

American Marines in the Battles of Trenton and Princeton

By: Maj Edwin N. McClelland & Capt John H. Craige

>Originally published in the Marine Corps Gazette, September 1921. Great deeds were done by the American Marines in the World War, and of these every school child knows. Only the historian and the antiquarian know of the part played by...

The First of Many

By: Capt Scott A. Holmes

The Marines’ first amphibious assault on New Providence >Originally published in the Marine Corps Gazette, November 2019. Editor’s Note: The authors biography is available in the original edition. Within his logbook, Lt James Josiah wrote, “At 2 P.M. Cast off...