Commandant's Planning Guidance: Marines, Lethality, Mobility

The Commandant's Planning Guidance, led by General Eric Smith, will focus on three major themes. Firstly, it will discuss Marines, covering aspects such as recruitment, training, and retention. Secondly, it will emphasize lethality, highlighting the Marine Corps as a crisis response force and a lethal fighting force. Finally, it will address mobility, emphasizing the importance of being able to swiftly get to the fight. The Commandant confirms that he will continue with the forced design, which aims to make the Marine Corps more lethal and mobile to counter emerging threats, and he expresses the importance of adapting policies to give Marines more involvement in decision-making.