R 271453Z NOV 24
MARADMIN 577/24
MSGID/GENADMIN/CMC WASHINGTON DC CD&I//
SUBJ/PUBLICATION AND AVAILABILITY OF THE MARINE CORPS CONCEPT FOR
LOGISTICS//
REF/A/MSGID: MCO/CMC/YMD: 20231002//
NARR/REF A IS MCO 5401.1 CONCEPT GENERATION AND DEVELOPMENT//
POC/E. T. ANDERSON/MAJ/MCWL G-3 CONCEPTS/[email protected]//
GENTEXT/REMARKS/1. The Commandant of the Marine Corps has approved
the Marine Corps Concept for Logistics: Achieving Positional
Advantage (MCCL), dated August 2024. The concept can be accessed via
the following links:
1.a. Unclassified executive summary: https://usmc.sharepoint-mil.us/
sites/DCCDI/SitePages/Final_Reports.aspx
1.b. Classified concept library: https://intelshare.intelink.sgov.gov
/sites/cdi/SitePages/FinalReportsLibrary.aspx
2. Background. To enable the idea of integrated deterrence from the
National Defense Strategy, the Marine Corps must maintain a forward
posture with credible warfighting capabilities. MCCL expands upon the
operational approaches and capabilities identified in the Joint
Warfighting Concept, Joint Concept for Contested Logistics, and Naval
Concept for Distributed Maritime Logistics Operations and provides
links to the tactical means and methods presented in Sustaining the
Force 2.0. It is written primarily for non-logisticians.
3. Purpose. MCCL presents a hypothesis and proposes capability
requirements for analyses to determine which are the most promising
for continued development and implementation. Once validated, this
concept will guide changes to Marine Corps doctrine, organization,
training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities
and policy (DOTMLPF-P) that will enable the force to achieve
positional advantage.
4. Scope and Central Idea. MCCL is a Service-level operating concept
that describes logistics support for globally integrated Marine Corps
operations across the competition continuum in the 2030-2035
timeframe. It provides a vision for operationalized logistics,
outlines a method to increase the fusion of logistics with other
warfighting functions, and provides a framework to develop future
logistics capabilities. The concept's central idea is that the Marine
Corps must posture, organize, and employ logistics as a form of
operational and strategic maneuver to generate and exploit positional
advantage relative to adversaries.
5. Operating Concepts. MCCL adds to the library of active Marine
Corps and Naval operating concepts, which consists of:
5.a. Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE), 2017. The
Navy and Marine Corps address the changing security environment in
which U.S. sea control was fading. LOCE hypothesizes that land-based
Marines integrating with Navy forces can support sea control
operations. LOCE envisions the five dimensions of the littorals as a
single battle space with an integrated Navy and Marine Corps
"Littoral Combat Group" fighting under a common commander to gain
sea control from both landward and seaward portions of the
environment.
5.b. Concept for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), 2019.
EABO complements the Navy Concept for Distributed Maritime Operations
(DMO) with the hypothesis that mobile, low signature, operationally
relevant and sustainable expeditionary forces can improve the ability
of the fleet to exploit control of key maritime terrain to establish
sea denial forward, to deter and, if necessary, engage in aggression
in the littorals. EABO echoes the notion that massing effects without
risk of concentrating forces will create advantages. It introduces
the requirement for Marine forces to possess capabilities to "win"
the recon / counter-recon fight in support of the fleet commander's
objectives.
5.c. A Concept for Stand-in Forces (SIF), 2021. SIF describes an
environment of growing strategic competition in which adversaries
apply a range of coercive measures short of war against partners and
allies. Marine forces contributing to the SIF concept leverage the
agility and lethality afforded by modernized capabilities to gain and
maintain advantage inside an adversary's weapons engagement zone.
Acting as the "JTAC of the Joint Force," these forces sense and make
sense of the operating environment while setting conditions for
naval, joint, and combined forces.
5.d. Concept for Naval and Special Operations Forces Operations
(CNSO), 2023. CNSO describes how naval and Special Operations Forces
(SOF) should deliver effects from the maritime domain across the
competition continuum within a joint campaign. This concept proposes
integration of unique SOF missions, skills, equipment, authorities,
and sustainment to conduct coordinated and synchronized operations at
all levels of war. By doing so, SOF will provide joint commanders
more options to deter, de-escalate, defeat aggression, assure access,
and/or support sea control.
5.e. Naval Concept for Distributed Maritime Logistics Operations
(DMLO), 2023. DMLO proposes solutions to the sustainment challenges
that emerge from DMO. The goal is to transform the logistics
enterprise from an efficient, peacetime organization to an
integrated, resilient, warfighting capability.
6. This MARADMIN is applicable to the Marine Corps Total Force.
7. Release authorized by Lieutenant General Eric E. Austin, Deputy
Commandant for Combat Development and Integration.//