Marine Air-Ground Task Force

joint doctrine, the Marine Corps, in coordination and cooperation with the Navy, has made logistical self-sufficiency an essential element of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) expeditionary warfighting capabilities. This means that the Marine Corps’ logistics mission, at all commands and support levels, is to generate MAGTFs that are rapidly deployable, self-reliant, self-sustaining, and flexible and that can rapidly reconstitute (Logistics Operations, 1999). While the Marine Corps is unmatched

Conventional warfare follows the single battle concept, where two or more well defined forces using weapons that target the opposing force. The contiguous battle-space is well defined with a deep, close and rear area allowing the force commander to array forces that can be visually displayed in a linear graphic. This does not hold true in an unconventional warfare, where the rear area may also be the close and deep fight and forces may target the civilian population either through direct, indirect or propaganda

The United States Marine Corps has an illustrious history forged in the trials of combat. Throughout its history, irregular warfare has and will continue to pose challenges for Marines facing new and radical enemy forces. The rapid, opportunistic, and flexible capabilities of maneuver warfare enables Marines to combat ambiguous enemies whose warfighting capability and doctrine is based on irregular warfare principles. Marine Corps units are organized and equipped to facilitate rapid deployment and

Force protection is a term used to describe all actions to protect and safeguard U.S. forces from adverse actions. Force protection measures can include patrolling a perimeter, hardening a building or emplacing obstacles to increase standoff. These measures require time and effort to achieve, and commanders must carefully assess their mission and area of operations to determine the appropriate allocation of resources. If considered early in mission analysis and incorporated throughout the planning

vulnerabilities can be a more efficient use of available resources. The United States Marine Corps’ Warfighting publication MCDP 1 draws a direct correlation between a COG and its critical vulnerability by stating, “we should focus our efforts against a critical vulnerability, a vulnerability that, if exploited, will do the most significant damage to the enemy 's ability to resist us” (United States Marine Corps 1997, 47). The Marine Corps favors the indirect approach to defeating an adversary’s COG because

Field Manual FM 3-21.8 (FM 7-8) The Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad March FIELD MANUAL 3-21.8- Purpose This field manual gives a proper outline of the way Infantry rifle platoons and squads fight. It also reports rifle platoon and squad non-combat operations. The purpose of this manual, in accordance with Army APFT regulations, is to provide doctrines, strategies, practices and techniques that are applied to operations in smaller units. However, in order to understand FM 3-21.8 completely, a soldier

The Marine Corps currently has no formal school to support advisor training or Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) producing school. Advisor teams train, advise, and provide mentorship support to stability operations. Advisor Training Group (ATG) can provide an amplified capability that commanders can employ during combat operations. Advising is one of the most effective ways to improve stability in foreign countries. A MOS producing school would be able to track, screen and train Marines for

the U.S. Marine Corps The definition of logistics is “the branch of military science and operations dealing with the procurement, supply, and maintenance of equipment, with the movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel, with the provision of facilities and services, and with related matters” (logistics). The name logistics was devised by the military and the war theatre. In a Marine Corps MAGTF (Marine Air-Ground Task Force), there is a Logistics Combat Element. These Marines contribute

world's most powerful government forces spending a little bit over six hundred billion dollars protecting this country. There are many different branches of the military: Air Force, Marine corps, Army, Navy and the Coast Guard, combined they are unstoppable. The army ships off to war a lot more with vehicles and all of the artillery, and manpower needed, people choose the army over the air force because there are a lot more jobs that will come out of it; however, the air force is the world's leader in aircraft

Operation Forager – “The Marines has Landed” The Beginning of the End of World War II (The Pacific War) Introduction: President of the United States of America Franklin Delano Roosevelt, seeing the devastation that was poised after the naval and air forces attack by the Japanese Empire against the US and hearing the clamor of the American people for vengeance, has encouraged the US to continuously strengthen its armed forces and train soldiers for the war against Japan. What followed is the passing