1 00:00:02,565 --> 00:00:03,989 - [Narrator] The Marines answered when the nation called them 2 00:00:03,989 --> 00:00:06,011 to Iraq and Afghanistan. 3 00:00:08,726 --> 00:00:11,099 But 20 years of land-based operations drove the 4 00:00:11,099 --> 00:00:12,787 Corps to become heavier 5 00:00:12,787 --> 00:00:16,306 and less compatible with ship-board operations and Naval campaigns. 6 00:00:16,306 --> 00:00:18,410 (booming) (gunshots) 7 00:00:20,097 --> 00:00:22,517 Meanwhile, American leadership has since established America's 8 00:00:22,517 --> 00:00:25,807 pace in challenge as the People's Republic of China, 9 00:00:25,807 --> 00:00:28,021 a maritime power. 10 00:00:28,021 --> 00:00:30,685 - [Man] China clearly is the most rapid- growing military in the world. 11 00:00:30,685 --> 00:00:34,434 - [Narrator] In 2019, 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps 12 00:00:34,434 --> 00:00:36,703 General Robert B. Neller 13 00:00:36,703 --> 00:00:38,229 said new and emerging threats mean the Marine Corps 14 00:00:38,229 --> 00:00:40,634 must change how it is organized, 15 00:00:40,634 --> 00:00:43,558 trained, equipped and employed. 16 00:00:45,202 --> 00:00:47,788 (dramatic music) 17 00:00:48,538 --> 00:00:50,597 In 2019, the 38th Commandant, 18 00:00:50,597 --> 00:00:52,492 General David H. Berger, 19 00:00:52,492 --> 00:00:55,736 first communicated the Force Design 2030 concept. 20 00:00:55,736 --> 00:00:58,899 - We have a lot of experimentation, a lot of learning to do. 21 00:00:58,899 --> 00:01:01,026 - [Narrator] Although it is rooted in decades of experiments 22 00:01:01,026 --> 00:01:02,947 that date as far back as 1997, 23 00:01:02,947 --> 00:01:07,065 it is designed to create a single integrated force 24 00:01:07,065 --> 00:01:10,965 that supports joint operations focused on forward maritime campaigns 25 00:01:10,965 --> 00:01:14,752 yet retains the ability to perform traditional Marine Corps roles. 26 00:01:16,354 --> 00:01:18,784 The 2022 Force Design annual report 27 00:01:18,784 --> 00:01:22,497 describes how the Marines continue to refine force design 28 00:01:22,497 --> 00:01:25,635 in forms through war-gaming, experimentation, 29 00:01:25,635 --> 00:01:28,224 and large-scale fleet Marine force exercises. 30 00:01:29,253 --> 00:01:31,294 While Marines remain focused on locating, 31 00:01:31,294 --> 00:01:33,210 closing with and destroying the enemy, 32 00:01:33,210 --> 00:01:35,695 they can offer more to the joint force mission. 33 00:01:37,328 --> 00:01:39,241 Marines are now better able to perform reconnaissance 34 00:01:39,241 --> 00:01:41,189 and counter-reconnaissance missions 35 00:01:41,189 --> 00:01:42,830 and complete joint kill webs. 36 00:01:45,473 --> 00:01:47,146 They've found the Marine expeditionary force 37 00:01:47,146 --> 00:01:50,130 is best organized to perform missions of the stand-in force. 38 00:01:50,130 --> 00:01:51,894 Small, lethal, 39 00:01:51,894 --> 00:01:55,189 low-signature forces that maneuver around the battlespace 40 00:01:55,189 --> 00:01:57,215 to sense, make sense, 41 00:01:57,215 --> 00:02:00,294 and act within the enemy's weapons engagement zone. 42 00:02:00,294 --> 00:02:02,157 Through these stand-in forces, 43 00:02:02,157 --> 00:02:04,072 the Marine air-ground task force 44 00:02:04,072 --> 00:02:05,504 provides credible deterrence. 45 00:02:08,267 --> 00:02:10,614 Through their campaign of learning, 46 00:02:10,614 --> 00:02:13,681 Marines continue to experiment with the optimal size 47 00:02:13,681 --> 00:02:15,602 of the modernized infantry battalion 48 00:02:15,602 --> 00:02:19,259 as well as the number of tiltrotor squadrons and artillery batteries. 49 00:02:19,259 --> 00:02:21,642 - [Marine] Standby, fire! 50 00:02:22,809 --> 00:02:25,717 Force Design 2030 is a modernization effort 51 00:02:25,717 --> 00:02:27,824 to build a Naval expeditionary force 52 00:02:27,824 --> 00:02:30,266 that operates across the competition continuum, 53 00:02:30,266 --> 00:02:32,910 capable of executing force design concepts 54 00:02:32,910 --> 00:02:35,600 but not exclusively tailored to them. 55 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,869 Marines remain a force of globally deployable tactical units 56 00:02:38,869 --> 00:02:40,894 that perform combined arms operations 57 00:02:40,894 --> 00:02:43,436 enabled by their own air and logistics 58 00:02:43,436 --> 00:02:46,599 in any region, in any clime and place. 59 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:49,085 This is the aim point for force design, 60 00:02:49,085 --> 00:02:51,536 and ensures the Marine Corps remains the nation's premiere 61 00:02:51,536 --> 00:02:53,984 crisis response force in any theatre.