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Following Latest Force Design 2030 Update, Berger Says Experiments Are Validating Marines’ Transformation

Following Latest Force Design 2030 Update, Berger Says Experiments Are Validating Marines’ Transformation
Gen. David H. Berger, who retired as Commandant of the Marine Corps on July 10, 2023, while at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island on July 29, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Warrant Officer Bobby J. Yarbrough)

After publishing the latest annual update to his plan for redesigning the Marine Corps by 2030, the force’s top official said ongoing experimentation has continued to validate the shift to smaller, lighter formations armed with capabilities to meet future challenges against peer competitors such as China. Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps, detailed for attendees at the Modern Day Marine conference in Washington, D.C., his vision for 21st century combined arms that will need to bring together  “ISR,…

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