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News | Nov. 2, 2020

Designing Tomorrow’s Marine Corps

By F.G. Hoffman U.S. Naval Institute

Sailor assigned to Assault Craft Unit 5 watches over departure of Landing Craft Air Cushion from Red Beach in preparation for San Francisco Fleet Week, featuring unique training and education program that brings together civilian and military forces, September 27, 2018 (U.S. Marine Corps/Jacob Farbo)
Sailor assigned to Assault Craft Unit 5 watches over departure of Landing Craft Air Cushion from Red Beach in preparation for San Francisco Fleet Week, featuring unique training and education program that brings together civilian and military forces, September 27, 2018 (U.S. Marine Corps/Jacob Farbo)
Sailor assigned to Assault Craft Unit 5 watches over departure of Landing Craft Air Cushion from Red Beach in preparation for San Francisco Fleet Week, featuring unique training and education program that brings together civilian and military forces, September 27, 2018 (U.S. Marine Corps/Jacob Farbo)
Sailor assigned to Assault Craft Unit 5 watches over departure of Landing Craft Air Cushion from Red Beach in preparation for San Francisco Fleet Week, featuring unique training and education program that brings together civilian and military forces, September 27, 2018 (U.S. Marine Corps/Jacob Farbo)
Sailor assigned to Assault Craft Unit 5 watches over departure of Landing Craft Air Cushion from Red Beach in preparation for San Francisco Fleet Week, featuring unique training and education program that brings together civilian and military forces, September 27, 2018 (U.S. Marine Corps/Jacob Farbo)
Photo By: Jacob Farbo
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The late military historian Sir Michael Howard likened the role of service chiefs—those responsible for preparing their institutions for future contests—to that of a “sailor navigating by dead reckoning. You have left the terra firma of the last war and are extrapolating from the experiences of that war.” Howard realized that the greater the distance from the last war, the greater the risk in getting this difficult calculation right.

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Dr. Frank Hoffman is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, Center for Strategic Research at National Defense University.