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| The Feather Merchants: Senior Leaders Subverted the Marine Corps | ||
| 2025-07-03 | ||
| [AmericanSpectator] Incompetent leaders misled the Marine Corps into ‘force design.’ It badly needs to return to conventional combat power. However, there is a new breed of Feather Merchants, those being the three and four star generals who have turned the Marine Corps from the nation’s 9-1-1 force to a China-oriented missile force that has failed the nation’s call three times in the last six years, leaving the other services scrambling to make up for their lack of availability. And the Corps doesn’t even have the missiles to accomplish the new mission yet. The last commandant
Now, the current commandant
The senior marine leaders have now admitted that they cannot logistically support the new anti-China force — that they call Force Design — due to Navy procurement failures in contracting the new small amphibious ships needed to support the concept. After six years not a single keel has been laid even though the Marine Corps gave up much of its conventional combat power to create the new concept called “Force Design.” Worse still, none of the nations in the region (with the exception of the Philippines) have agreed to host the anti-China force; and they will not allow their territory to be used in the defense of Taiwan, which is the most likely regional conflict. In addition, the missiles that the Marine Corps is buying to implement the concept are sub-sonic and likely obsolete against current Chinese technology. The question that should be asked of the current senior Marine Corps leadership is, “can’t anyone here play this game?” There is a deeper moral question here, and that is one of integrity. There is ample evidence that the war games that “validated” the Force Design concept were manipulated to get the “right” answers that the the commandant at the time wanted. This whole idea was his and was supported by some handpicked sycophants. The current commandant blatantly lied to a group of Pentagon reporters when he told them on January 15th that the Marine Corps had never bought in to DEI, while his staff was trying to expunge the record of that collusion. Apparently, the line in the Marine Corps Hymn that talks about “keeping our honor clean” escaped these two characters. The rank and file of the Marine Corps is still made up of superb warriors, but the current senior leadership consists of careerist flunkies and is seriously in need of an enema; but who will perform the procedure? It would be easy to totally blame the Biden administration for the current state of the Corps, as most of the damage occurred on Biden’s watch, but the current administration and Congress seem equally clueless and uninterested. This is probably because most former marine veteran congressmen were relatively junior and were taught to regard their senior leaders as infallible; this includes Vice President Vance. Their loyalty has been betrayed. The current state of Headquarters Marine Corps more resembles the pre-reformation Vatican than the leadership of a competent military organization. There are many competent and combat tested senior leaders in the Corps that were forcibly retired for objecting to the situation that the organization is currently in. President Trump wisely brought a general officer out of retirement to head the Joint Chiefs. The Marine Corps badly needs the same treatment. Get rid of the Feather Merchants and restore the honesty and usefulness of one of America’s great institutions. Related: David H. Berger 11/28/2021 The Future of the Marine Corps Is a Stand-In Force David H. Berger 10/16/2021 Fire Marine Corps Commandant David Berger David H. Berger 08/28/2021 Brave young Marine LTC demands senior leaders accept 'accountability' for AFG gets removed from position | ||
| Posted by:NoMoreBS |
| #2 The world's leading maritime power MUST be able to aggressively project overwhelming conventional land power across littoral boundaries when needed. It must thin consolidate and sustain the beach-head and establish battle-space dominance against land, sea and air response. This is the core mission of the Marines and their structure, doctrine and equipment must support that, period! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2025-07-03 15:16 |
| #1 The whole idea was that some dictator/mullah,etc seeing a waterborne Marine assault group parked off their shores might give them pause. And if they didn't calm down, 'things happen'. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2025-07-03 11:02 |