This is the first of several "briefing" slides that I'll present to bolster my argument that Expeditionary Force 21 is an example of the USMC looking backwards....
More to the point it illustrates how Amos is steering the Corps towards a future that will see it unprepared to engage in conventional combat against peer or near peer opponents.
Read it carefully, compare it to EF21 and take in the implications.
Small units dispersed over a large area just waiting to be fixed and destroyed by even primitive but organized opposition. We've seen it in Afghanistan and if this concept isn't challenged we'll see it again.
