Navy League SeaAirSpace Symposium

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Navy League Sea-Air-Space Symposium
Strategic Engagement and Maritime Diplomacy
LtGen Richard F. Natonski USMC Deputy Commandant,
Plans, Policies and Operations 19 March 2008
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Mid-Range Threat Assessment
Unclassified

• Future global threat environment will be
  characterized by the following drivers of
  instability
• Terrorism / Irregular Warfare
• Ideological / Religious Extremism
• Poorly / ungoverned spaces
• Globalization
• Economics / Poverty / Health Crisis
• Natural Resource Competition (water, energy,
  etc.)
• Science Technology competition / advancements
• Changing Demographics (youth bulge, aging
  populations, etc.)
• Environmental Factors (climate change, natural
  disasters, etc.)
• Crime

US Military operations in the 21st Century will
likely focus on neutralizing asymmetric threats
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Combatant Commander Requirements
Unclassified
Current Situation
COCOM Demand

• CENTCOM focused
• COIN specific training
• Reduced forward presence
• worldwide
• Limited capacity for Security Cooperation (SC)
  operations
• Reduced maritime connection
• Unable to address many COCOM requirements
• Degraded home station unit readiness

• Persistent engagement
• Forward presence
• Strategic Partnerships
• capability capacity building
• Security
• Partner Nation counterterrorism
• capability / capacity
• Coverage in ungoverned areas
• Intelligence, Surveillance,
• Reconnaissance (ISR)

Demand exceeds current supply of Marine forces
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Security Cooperation MAGTF (Expanding Adaptable
Force Employment Options)
Unclassified
Expands MAGTF capabilities in the lower end of
the expeditionary force spectrum to increase and
sustain forward presence, while retaining ability
to reaggregate and reorient for more traditional
missions.
Security Cooperation MAGTF (SC MAGTF) Task
organized, but enduring in nature with
specialized enabling / shaping capabilities,
operating from mix of amphibs, HSVs, MSC ships
and forward bases to provide forward presence.
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Unclassified
Send in the Marines (Marine Operations for
Shaping and Deterrence)

• Security Cooperation MAGTF
• Task organized around infantry battalion
• Full-spectrum capable, optimized for security
  cooperation
• Deploys to Forward Operating Site, then as
  scalable detachments throughout AOR
• Available for reaggregation and redeployment to
  meet contingencies

• Force Planning Construct
• 9 Inf Bns forward (3 MEU/3 UDP/3 SC MAGTF)
• 18 Inf Bns conducting full spectrum training
• 27 Inf Bns Total (202K) operating on 12 dwell
• 9 RC Bns in operational reserve

MARFOREUR
MARFORNORTH
MARCENT
MARFORPAC
MEU
GFS 1
MEU
SC MAGTF
MPS
SC MAGTF
MPS
MEU
GFS 4
GFS 2
SC MAGTF
GFS 5
GFS 3
MARFORSOUTH
MPS
MARFORAFRICA

• Global Fleet Stations (GFS)
• Maritime security cooperation
• Operationalizes Naval Operations Concept
• Sea-based naval headquarters
• Minimal footprint

• Supports the Geographic CCDRs through
• Persistent forward presence
• Balanced MEFs
• Task organized MAGTFs building partner capacity
  while retaining full spectrum capability

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Creative force employment and increased capacity
enables global sustained forward naval presence