We continue our discussion about General Berger’s Planning Guidance with Col Thomas X. Hammes, USMC (ret). Col Hammes is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Research at National Defense University and specializes in the area of Future Strategic Concepts; Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief; Insurgency/Irregular Warfare.

Some of the things you’ll hear:

* Drone warfare is coming

* Long range rockets with pinpoint accuracy will dominate the Peer-to-Peer warfare of the future

* The is a REVOLUTION, not the normal evolution of warfare

* The “close with and destroy” part of the Marine Corps mission will be diminished

* The Marine needs to get older and more experienced

* The Marine Corps F-35 buy is too large, what is needed is DRONES with long legs, long time of flight and the ability to shoot and direct shooting

Here are the links that Ron Reyes mentioned in this interview:

* Ron’s website:  ronreyes.com

* Ron’s link to his Go Fund Me page is HERE

* To donate via the 2 Sides Project, click HERE

 

The ALL MARINE RADIO Head Chef joined the program to talk “Sloppy Joe’s” today!  Below is the full recipe!  Enjoy!!!

ALL MARINE RADIO is putting together a framework to evaluate General Dave Berger’s revolutionary “Planning Guidance” which will transform the Marine Corps to a vastly different organization. ALL MARINE RADIO will also bring guests on who have expertise in the areas that our “framework” will seek to evaluate in order to add substance to this discussion.

Looking forward to it!

MarK Cancian is a Senior Adviser, International Security Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies; he joined ALL MARINE RADIO to discuss the Commandant of the Marine Corps transformation of the Marine Corps, details of which were unveiled for the public in Michael Gordon’s article entitled “Marines Plan to Retool to Meet China Threat.”

You can find Mark Cancian’s most recent article on General Berger’s transformation of the Marine Corps here:  “The Marine Corps’ Radical Shift toward China,” March 25, 2020

I met Don Shields when I lived in Grand Forks ND, first as a guest on my radio show and years later as a member of the City Council.  The US Air Force veteran joined ALL MARINE RADIO to explain a lot of the things we hear about these days:

* The challenge of advancing expensive public health projects for low probability epidemics & pandemics

* Opening supply chains isn’t as easy as it sounds

* Drilling down into the mortality statistics by age

Don is a great professional who has always made me smarter about the complex issues that surround public health… problems that often carry large price tags.

Late last week the Michael Gordon wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal (you gotta pay to read it) entitled “Marines Plan to Retool to Meet China Treat” —- on Monday, US Naval Institute News led with the headline “New Marine Corps Cuts Will Slash All Tanks, Many Heavy Weapons As Focus Shifts to Lighter, Littoral Forces” —  Tim Lynch and Jeff Kenney join ALL MARINE RADIO to frame a discussion that will go on for years in Marine Corps circles — WHAT WILL THIS DO TO THE MARINE CORPS?

* Will these measures propel the the Marine Corps to be the “force of choice” in the South China Sea but marginalized in most other theaters due to it’s light nature?

* Will these measures usher in a new “Golden Age” of the Marine Corps well suited for the challenges of “peer-to-peer” and “near-peer to peer” warfare?

* Will these measure render the Marine Corps to the “hand maiden of the Navy” akin to World War II “coastal artillery batteries” and eliminate the Corps ability to “close with and destroy”?

We’ll talk about it.

TODAY’S TOPICS:

* Alex’s mom has Covid-19 symptoms and has been tested, she’s a nurse

* Jobs and the economy vs Public Health and self isolation

* relearning collective sacrifice as a nation, not since World War II has the nation be asked to collectively sacrifice to this extent