1 00:00:02,282 --> 00:00:03,956 - [Narrator] The Marines answered when the nation called them 2 00:00:03,956 --> 00:00:05,662 to Iraq and Afghanistan. 3 00:00:06,413 --> 00:00:08,170 (soft music) 4 00:00:08,726 --> 00:00:10,757 But 20 years of land-based operations 5 00:00:10,757 --> 00:00:12,431 drove the Corps to become heavier 6 00:00:12,431 --> 00:00:14,951 and less compatible with shipboard operations 7 00:00:14,951 --> 00:00:16,520 and naval campaigns. 8 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,468 (booming) (gunshots) 9 00:00:19,754 --> 00:00:22,378 Meanwhile, American leadership has since established 10 00:00:22,378 --> 00:00:25,643 America's pacing challenge as the People's Republic of China 11 00:00:25,643 --> 00:00:27,543 a maritime power. 12 00:00:27,543 --> 00:00:30,563 - [Man] China clearly is the most rapid-growing military in the world. 13 00:00:30,563 --> 00:00:32,033 - [Narrator] In 2019, 14 00:00:32,033 --> 00:00:34,095 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps 15 00:00:34,095 --> 00:00:35,864 General Robert B. Neller 16 00:00:35,864 --> 00:00:38,544 said new and emerging threats mean the Marine Corps 17 00:00:38,544 --> 00:00:40,250 must change how it is organized, 18 00:00:40,250 --> 00:00:43,010 trained, equipped and employed. 19 00:00:45,202 --> 00:00:47,788 (dramatic music) 20 00:00:48,538 --> 00:00:50,540 In 2019, the 38th Commandant, 21 00:00:50,540 --> 00:00:52,287 General David H. Berger, 22 00:00:52,287 --> 00:00:55,383 first communicated the Force Design 2030 concept. 23 00:00:55,383 --> 00:00:57,108 - We have a lot of experimentation, 24 00:00:57,108 --> 00:00:58,801 a lot of learning to do. 25 00:00:58,801 --> 00:01:00,781 - [Narrator] Although it is rooted in decades of experiments 26 00:01:00,781 --> 00:01:02,859 that date as far back as 1997, 27 00:01:03,885 --> 00:01:05,667 it is designed to create a single, 28 00:01:05,667 --> 00:01:07,647 integrated force that supports 29 00:01:07,647 --> 00:01:10,578 joint operations focused on forward maritime campaigns, 30 00:01:11,273 --> 00:01:14,719 yet retains the ability to perform traditional Marine Corps roles. 31 00:01:16,354 --> 00:01:19,040 The 2022 Force Design annual report 32 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,072 describes how the Marines continue to refine force design 33 00:01:22,072 --> 00:01:25,329 informed through wargaming, experimentation, 34 00:01:25,329 --> 00:01:28,062 and large-scale Fleet Marine Force exercises. 35 00:01:29,253 --> 00:01:31,294 While Marines remain focused on locating, 36 00:01:31,294 --> 00:01:33,210 closing with and destroying the enemy, 37 00:01:33,210 --> 00:01:35,695 they can offer more to the joint force mission. 38 00:01:36,711 --> 00:01:39,162 Marines are now better able to perform reconnaissance 39 00:01:39,162 --> 00:01:40,757 and counter-reconnaissance missions 40 00:01:40,757 --> 00:01:42,690 and complete joint kill webs. 41 00:01:44,733 --> 00:01:46,676 They found the Marine expeditionary force 42 00:01:46,676 --> 00:01:49,952 is best organized to perform missions of the stand-in force. 43 00:01:50,130 --> 00:01:51,894 Small, lethal, 44 00:01:51,894 --> 00:01:55,189 low-signature forces that maneuver around the battlespace 45 00:01:55,189 --> 00:01:57,215 to sense, make sense, 46 00:01:57,215 --> 00:02:00,294 and act within the enemy's weapons engagement zone. 47 00:02:00,294 --> 00:02:02,157 Through these stand-in forces, 48 00:02:02,157 --> 00:02:04,072 the Marine air-ground task force 49 00:02:04,072 --> 00:02:05,504 provides credible deterrence. 50 00:02:08,267 --> 00:02:10,614 Through their campaign of learning, 51 00:02:10,614 --> 00:02:13,681 Marines continue to experiment with the optimal size 52 00:02:13,681 --> 00:02:15,602 of the modernized infantry battalion 53 00:02:15,602 --> 00:02:19,011 as well as the number of tiltrotor squadrons and artillery batteries. 54 00:02:19,259 --> 00:02:21,642 - [Marine] Standby, fire! 55 00:02:22,809 --> 00:02:25,717 - [Narrator] Force Design 2030 is a modernization effort 56 00:02:25,717 --> 00:02:27,824 to build a naval expeditionary force 57 00:02:27,824 --> 00:02:30,266 that operates across the competition continuum, 58 00:02:30,266 --> 00:02:32,910 capable of executing force design concepts 59 00:02:32,910 --> 00:02:35,600 but not exclusively tailored to them. 60 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,869 Marines remain a force of globally deployable tactical units 61 00:02:38,869 --> 00:02:40,894 that perform combined arms operations 62 00:02:40,894 --> 00:02:43,436 enabled by their own air and logistics 63 00:02:43,436 --> 00:02:46,599 in any region, in any clime and place. 64 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:49,085 This is the aim point for force design, 65 00:02:49,085 --> 00:02:51,536 and ensures the Marine Corps remains the nation's premier 66 00:02:51,536 --> 00:02:53,984 crisis response force in any theater.