Force Design 2030 is Marine Corps wide because the Chinese Navy is going global?

In the context of a WESTPAC war, it's important to look at the PLA's system destruction warfare doctrine and how the PLA means to employ it in the fight against the USN beyond the 1st island chain. A 🧵

— PLAOps (@PLAOpsOSINT) October 29, 2022

I keep chewing on this Twitter post and keep coming up with new thoughts.

HQMC has been saying that FD2030 is focused on the Pacific and won't be going Marine Corps wide.

I knew that was a lie when I saw 2ndMARDIV implementing many of the concepts found in FD2030.

So why is it going Marine Corps wide?

Because its been unsaid but the Chinese Navy is becoming (if it isn't already), a true BLUE WATER Navy.

The US Navy is dazed and confused and facing a threat...a true threat...that it hasn't truly faced since the beginning of WW2 (with a greatly diminished ship building capacity).

Why Force Design 2030?

Because the Navy isn't ready and won't be ready for awhile.

So the Marine Corps changes to save a Navy that isn't up to the challenge.

More to come as I continue to ponder this thing....