One thing I stress to my students at George Washington University when lecturing on war games is that when someone tells you that games have validated anything, "grab your wallet." The Marine Corps has announced that unclassified summaries will be released later this year. Berger claims that the games validated the 2030 concept, and he asks us to take his word for it. War games and field exercises were umpired affairs with competent "Red Teams" opposing the emerging ideas for strategy, trying to poke holes in them.Ĭonversely, we don't know much about how the war games that led up to FD 2030 were conducted because they were classified. Not only was there lively internal debate over the massed use of tanks, but also of the close coordination of aircraft with ground forces. The German preparation for war was far different. The only serious criticism of French doctrine came from the Germans in a 1940 live-fire exercise that overran France in a little over a month. There were no competent "Red Teams " the opposing force, if one existed, acted as tackling dummies. War games, such as they were, constituted rehearsals for the application of Methodical Battle doctrine. Officers such as Charles de Gaulle had their careers threatened when they continued to push for independent mass armored units instead of using tanks solely to support slow moving infantry.
ONE PIECE MARINE BASE PROFESSIONAL
In 1936, the French General Staff issued a gag order concerning criticism of the French standing doctrine known as "Methodical Battle" either in public or in professional journals.
Historically, that approach has not ended well for the militaries that have employed it. No input from the rest of the active duty or the retired members of the Corps was solicited. The new doctrine was developed behind closed doors by the commandant and a close circle of trusted advisers. The only articles in service-specific publications that have seriously questioned the premises or execution of FD 2030 have been by retired Marines or independent analysts. My question is: What debate? Incoming students at the Marine Corps professional education schools are told in no uncertain terms that the restructured service is a done deal and not up for discussion. David Berger, congratulated his Marines on having an open and honest debate concerning his Force Design (FD) 2030 initiative, which eliminated all the service's tanks, much of its tubed artillery, many helicopters and its heavy engineering capability, and drastically reduced Marine Corps infantry strength. In a recent speech to the Marine Corps Association, the current commandant, Gen.
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