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The commandant has signed Marine Corps

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doctrinal publication eight

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highlighting information as the Marine

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Corps's seventh warfighting function .

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M c D p eight serves as the capstone

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doctrine helping marines of all ranks

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to understand how to leverage the power

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of information in Marine Corps

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operations . The publication details

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the role information plays at every

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level of military operations below and

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above the threshold of armed conflict .

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M c d p eight educates marines how to

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think about understand and leverage

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information across military operations

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and to create and exploit information

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advantages . This doctrine emphasizes

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on the importance of strategically

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generating , preserving , denying and

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projecting information while also

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leveraging the inherently informational

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aspects of all military activities .

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For more information about the core's

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newest war fighting function , you can

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read M c D p eight for yourself at

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Marines dot mil under the publications

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tab .