{"id":21679,"date":"2018-02-08T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/02\/08\/leadership-looks-to-ready-marines-for-high-end-fight\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:56:18","slug":"leadership-looks-to-ready-marines-for-high-end-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/show-reporter\/2018\/02\/08\/leadership-looks-to-ready-marines-for-high-end-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership looks to ready Marines for high-end fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After years of operations in permissive environments, current U.S. personnel could face significant struggles in a high-end fight against adversaries with sophisticated capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGone are the days of uncontested superiority that we\u2019ve really had,\u201d Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, commanding general of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command and Deputy Commandant of Combat Development and Integration, said during a Feb. 7 keynote at the West 2018 conference in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I take a look at our marines who have been in Iraq and Afghanistan \u2026 I think we would probably struggle in that type of complex environment based on where we\u2019ve been and the good work we\u2019ve been doing over the last 17 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marines, as well as others across the joint force, need to be prepared for the types of asymmetric threats they might face against certain high-end nation states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to make sure that marines are instilled with the confidence to be able to go against their peer competitor,\u201d Maj. Gen. Eric Smith, commanding general of 1st Marine Division, said during the same conference a day earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome of it is as simple as air threats. We haven\u2019t had a bomb dropped on us in almost 70 years. You have to be able to prepare yourself for an aviation threat we haven\u2019t faced since the \u201950s; we\u2019re doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t