Speeches and Transcripts

Marines

Speeches and Transcripts

Gen. Mahoney at the Hudson Institute

Let me just start by saying change is easy. You come in, you declare, you write a white paper and it's done. Now in all seriousness, the journey toward Force Design reaches all the way back to Hunter Warrior, to Urban Warrior, back decades in fact. We are kind of getting away from the 2030 moniker, I think that was a pretty good way point to throw out there at first, but we've been through six budget cycles of organizational change, of functional change, and structural change. Those decisions have been made, and as you alluded to, we're moving out on those. The beauty of the structure of Force Design is that right up front it said the concept is a little different, or depending on how you look at it, very much different, but challenge the assumptions along the way, we made a lot of assumptions.

Defense Forum Washington 2023

Do We Have the Right Naval Force Structure to Execute the Nation's Strategy? With China forging ahead with construction of the world's largest navy, has the United States positioned itself to generate the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard force structure necessary to fulfill the U.S. National Security Strategy? Military and congressional leaders, as well as naval strategists, convened on this topic and provided their assessments on where we are and where we need to be with respect to the force structure and resources required to satisfy U.S. national security objectives.

Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps