Projecting Power in Gator Operations
By Colonel Todd S. Desgrosseilliers, Colonel William J. Bowers, and Lieutenant Colonel Christian F. Wortman, U.S. Marine Corps
To secure its operational edge, the Marine Air-Ground Task Force should enhance its capabilities in four specific ways.
he recent defense strategic guidance, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, highlights the growing importance of projecting power into anti-access, area-denial (A2/AD) environments. To keep pace with emerging threats, the Navy–Marine Corps team is on the cusp of important advances in projecting power through the full range of amphibious and crisis-response operations. These breakthroughs are being driven by four significant, interdependent enhancements to Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF) capabilities. They include:
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