Brief to the Navy League

Special Topic Breakfast

Outline:

CD&I/MCCDC: Who We Are and What We Do

Major Rocks in the Ruck
Concept Based Requirements
Expeditionary Force 21
Force Development Focus Areas
o Seabasing
o Combat Vehicles
Amphibious Vehicle Replacement Strategy

LtGen Kenneth J. Glueck Jr.

Deputy Commandant,
Combat Development
and Integration

Commanding General,
Marine Corps
Combat Development Command
Feb, 20 2014

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CD&I and MCCDC

Organization and LOEs
Deputy Commandant,
Combat Development
and Integration

Develop and integrate Marine Corps

Develop
and integrate
Marine Corps
warfighting
capabilities
warfighting capabilities

Commanding General,
Marine Corps Combat
Development Command

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Major Rocks in the Rucksack

Institutionalizing Expeditionary Force 21
MEB CONOPs and Naval Integration

Ground Combat Vehicle Strategy

Amphibious Shipping and Connectors
Maintaining the Reawakening
Momentum in our School Houses
Maintaining our Expeditionary Training
Standards

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Concept Based Requirements

Marine Corps Concepts
such as...
Ship-to-Objective Maneuver
(STOM)
Operational Maneuver From
the Sea (OMFTS)
Seabasing

...are now being executed

So Whats Next?...
Expeditionary Force 21
Refocus on our expeditionary
culture
Prepared for Todays Crisis,
with Todays Force, Today!
Prepared to do the same
with less

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Expeditionary Force 21
Background

CMC Guidance
Covers 10-year planning
horizon
Identifies operating
environment
Defines how we will
operate
Prioritizes required
capabilities
Informs USMC concepts

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Expeditionary Force 21

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Future Operating Environment

Arc of Instability

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Defining The New Normal

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Expeditionary Force 21
Increased Forward Presence

Expeditionary Force 21 envisions a posture that ensures 1/3 of the Marine Corps operating forces are:
o
o
o

Immediately available for crisis

response
Positioned forward / routinely
engaged
Leverage alternative naval platforms
and shorebasing

Provides the Geographic Combatant

Commands:
o JTF capable HQs
o Regionally focused forces for
steady state activities
o Ability to adjust positioning on-thefly Sea as Maneuver Space
o Improved response times to seize
the initiative

(1 BN)
(1 BN)

(4 BNs)
(1 BN)

Forward: 7 Infantry BNs: 3 MEU CEs; 3 SPMAGTFs; III MEF UDP

Forward: 7 Infantry BNs: 3 MEU CEs; 3 SPMAGTFs; III MEF UDP
33-38 Ships provides capacity to support ARG/MEUs &
33-38 Ships provides capacity to support ARG/MEUs &
independent ships supporting SPMAGTFs
independent ships supporting SPMAGTFs

Strategically located assets--distributed capabilities where it makes sense

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Expeditionary Force 21
OMFTS & STOM Remain Valid
We are using a modified toolbox & CONOPS

65+ nm
Power
projection to
raid and
defeat A2AD;
open
penetration
points

Lo
w

30-50 nm
Threat mitigated;
JFMCC can protect
Sea Echelon Area for
air and surface
connector
operations/launch

12-25 nm
CDCM
defeated, w/
escort
amphibs can
close to 12nm
for ACV launch

Will not repeat Iwo Jima

because we can do this

OBJ A

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Improved
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LPS

OBJ B
LPS

Air and Surface Connectors Allow for High Speed Littoral Maneuver

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Force Development Focus Area:

Seabasing

Mitigate risk of fewer amphibious ships

with innovate integration of alternative
naval platforms and connectors
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Amphibious Vehicle
Replacement Strategy

ACV Phase I:
Increment I: Off the Shelf

Connector Strategy
Work closely with our
Naval partners on the
next generation of
surface connectors.

Increment II: Right Number of Variants

AAV Investment
Survivability
Enhancement

ACV Phase II: Continued research in pursuit of HWS

ACV: Research in pursuit of a high-water speed capability

Commandant of the Marine Corps Number One Priority

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Why Reprioritize Now?

Greater Mobility and Reliability Right Now

Today...HWS requires too many trade offs for the price

Growth potential (historic growth 20-25%)

Insufficient ground mobility and durability
associated with HWS
Area denial capabilities seek to deny
intervention through combined threats
We need a faster solution

Way forward...
Address readiness and operational issues AAV upgrade
Develop an Armored Personnel Carrier optimized for shore based operations
Growth capacity
Increase reliability over tracked
Decreased cost
Potentially robust littoral swim
Decreased fuel consumption
Exceptional mobility on and off roads
Capacity for ballistic protection
Reduced Signature

Continue to push technology on High Water Speed development

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QUESTIONS

"With respect to equipment we should

"With respect to equipment we should
emphasize simplicity, ruggedness and
emphasize simplicity, ruggedness and
ease of maintenance. And in design and
ease of maintenance. And in design and
gadgetry the characteristics we demand
gadgetry the characteristics we demand
should be pattern of the necessary
should be pattern of the necessary
rather than the ideal. We shall continue
rather than the ideal. We shall continue
to strive to obtain in a timely manner
to strive to obtain in a timely manner
the best possible combat equipment.
the best possible combat equipment.
General David M. Shoup,
General David M. Shoup,
CMC, 4 January 1960
CMC, 4 January 1960

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