R 271453Z NOV 24
MARADMIN 577/24
MSGID/GENADMIN/CMC WASHINGTON DC CD&I//  
SUBJ/PUBLICATION AND AVAILABILITY OF THE MARINE CORPS CONCEPT FOR
LOGISTICS//
REF/A/MSGID: MCO/CMC/YMD: 20231002// 
NARR/REF A IS MCO 5401.1 CONCEPT GENERATION AND DEVELOPMENT//
POC/E. T. ANDERSON/MAJ/MCWL G-3 CONCEPTS/ERIC.ANDERSON@USMC.MIL//
GENTEXT/REMARKS/1. The Commandant of the Marine Corps has approved 
the Marine Corps Concept for Logistics: Achieving Positional 
Advantage (MCCL), dated August 2024. The concept can be accessed via 
the following links:
1.a. Unclassified executive summary: https://usmc.sharepoint-mil.us/
sites/DCCDI/SitePages/Final_Reports.aspx
1.b. Classified concept library: https://intelshare.intelink.sgov.gov
/sites/cdi/SitePages/FinalReportsLibrary.aspx
2. Background. To enable the idea of integrated deterrence from the 
National Defense Strategy, the Marine Corps must maintain a forward 
posture with credible warfighting capabilities. MCCL expands upon the 
operational approaches and capabilities identified in the Joint 
Warfighting Concept, Joint Concept for Contested Logistics, and Naval 
Concept for Distributed Maritime Logistics Operations and provides 
links to the tactical means and methods presented in Sustaining the 
Force 2.0. It is written primarily for non-logisticians.
3. Purpose. MCCL presents a hypothesis and proposes capability 
requirements for analyses to determine which are the most promising 
for continued development and implementation. Once validated, this 
concept will guide changes to Marine Corps doctrine, organization, 
training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities 
and policy (DOTMLPF-P) that will enable the force to achieve 
positional advantage.
4. Scope and Central Idea. MCCL is a Service-level operating concept 
that describes logistics support for globally integrated Marine Corps 
operations across the competition continuum in the 2030-2035 
timeframe. It provides a vision for operationalized logistics, 
outlines a method to increase the fusion of logistics with other 
warfighting functions, and provides a framework to develop future 
logistics capabilities. The concept’s central idea is that the Marine 
Corps must posture, organize, and employ logistics as a form of 
operational and strategic maneuver to generate and exploit positional 
advantage relative to adversaries.
5. Operating Concepts. MCCL adds to the library of active Marine 
Corps and Naval operating concepts, which consists of:
5.a. Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE), 2017. The 
Navy and Marine Corps address the changing security environment in 
which U.S. sea control was fading. LOCE hypothesizes that land-based 
Marines integrating with Navy forces can support sea control 
operations. LOCE envisions the five dimensions of the littorals as a 
single battle space with an integrated Navy and Marine Corps 
“Littoral Combat Group” fighting under a common commander to gain 
sea control from both landward and seaward portions of the 
environment. 
5.b. Concept for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), 2019. 
EABO complements the Navy Concept for Distributed Maritime Operations 
(DMO) with the hypothesis that mobile, low signature, operationally 
relevant and sustainable expeditionary forces can improve the ability 
of the fleet to exploit control of key maritime terrain to establish 
sea denial forward, to deter and, if necessary, engage in aggression 
in the littorals. EABO echoes the notion that massing effects without 
risk of concentrating forces will create advantages. It introduces 
the requirement for Marine forces to possess capabilities to “win” 
the recon / counter-recon fight in support of the fleet commander’s 
objectives.
5.c. A Concept for Stand-in Forces (SIF), 2021. SIF describes an 
environment of growing strategic competition in which adversaries 
apply a range of coercive measures short of war against partners and 
allies. Marine forces contributing to the SIF concept leverage the 
agility and lethality afforded by modernized capabilities to gain and 
maintain advantage inside an adversary’s weapons engagement zone. 
Acting as the “JTAC of the Joint Force,” these forces sense and make 
sense of the operating environment while setting conditions for 
naval, joint, and combined forces.
5.d. Concept for Naval and Special Operations Forces Operations 
(CNSO), 2023. CNSO describes how naval and Special Operations Forces 
(SOF) should deliver effects from the maritime domain across the 
competition continuum within a joint campaign. This concept proposes 
integration of unique SOF missions, skills, equipment, authorities, 
and sustainment to conduct coordinated and synchronized operations at 
all levels of war. By doing so, SOF will provide joint commanders 
more options to deter, de-escalate, defeat aggression, assure access, 
and/or support sea control.
5.e. Naval Concept for Distributed Maritime Logistics Operations 
(DMLO), 2023. DMLO proposes solutions to the sustainment challenges 
that emerge from DMO. The goal is to transform the logistics 
enterprise from an efficient, peacetime organization to an 
integrated, resilient, warfighting capability.
6. This MARADMIN is applicable to the Marine Corps Total Force.
7. Release authorized by Lieutenant General Eric E. Austin, Deputy 
Commandant for Combat Development and Integration.//