General McMaster eviscerates Force Design 2030 via Marine Compass Points

 Before we hit on Gen McMaster's comments I have to pop this out because I found it fascinating...

I actually also just graduated from Marine Officer Candidate School on Saturday and while we were there, we were forbidden from asking about Force Design 2030 . . . . So I wanted to ask you, because it is a very controversial strategic document -- [yet] every former living commandant came out and criticized it . . . . so was interested to hear your thoughts on it.

-- Marine OCS Graduate

Drink that in.

Marine Corps leadership is so scared of criticism of Force Design 2030 that they refuse to allow it to be discussed at OCS?

That is not the Marine Corps that I knew and its not the Marine Corps they tell us it is.  This is some draconian bullshit.  If the plan is solid then they should encourage debate.  But they know better.  They just don't know how to extricate themselves from this boondoggle and above all else face must be saved! 

Onto the general's comments.

McMaster begins his view of the Marine Corps' Force Design by saying, "I think that that document is flawed, because it's based on unrealistic assumptions about the future of war."

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 . . . Force Design 2030 is criticized for being based on unrealistic assumptions about future war, emphasizing stand-off strikes over close combat. [1-10]

-- The reliance on future war being clean and cheaper is compared to past strategic bombing theories and dismissed as unrealistic. [1-17]

-- Effective military deterrence relies on capable Joint Forces across all domains, rather than relying solely on long-range capabilities. [1-22]

-- The Marine Corps' shift from close combat capabilities to long-range strategies overlooks the importance of close combat's evolving decisive role. [1-36]

-- lilys.ai

Read it for yourself here 

Amazing isn't it.

Even an Army general that specialized in Armored/Mechanized combat can see the mountain sized holes in FD2030, but Marine Corps leadership can't.

Force Design 2030 is the DEI of military concepts.  It got put into position but not based on merit but based on who was pushing the idea.  It's not qualified to be a military concept but here it is.  

We all know its a failure but no one wants to rock the boat or we'll get called into the office.

Well I'll stand on the carpet.  

Force Design 2030 is bullshit.  Even the Army knows it (trust and believe if McMaster is able to comment that quickly in a question and answer period then its been discussed vigorously in Army circles).

PS.

God bless that young LT.  He might have the shortest commission in the history of the Marine Corps.  He took his leadership principles a bit too seriously for the crowd that is running the Corps today.