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Commandant Promotes Initiative To Modernize Ground Forces

May 19 2015

USA

Gen. Joseph Dunford, the commandant of the Marine Corps, has announced plans to modernize the service and improve its ground combat elements, reports the Marine Corps Times.

The Corps must change to realize the strategic vision outlined in the Expeditionary Force 21 document, which calls for distributed operations and movement from the sea, said Dunford on last week at a Marine Corps Association event near Washington, D.C.

A new working group will be organized in the near...

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