The United States Marine Corps made vital strides in 2025, implementing new formations and technologies in an effort to remain ready for any conflicts that may abound. This past year forced the ...

Sgt. Lucien Lewis, a career planner with Headquarters and Service Battalion, Headquarters Marine Corps, poses to show the tattoos on his arms in 2017. (Lance Cpl. Benjamin Harris/Marine Corps) The ...

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of three articles on the U.S. Marine Corps. The first article was published on June 16, 2025, and the second article was published on June 19, 2025.

Marines have spent too much energy in the past five years debating the merits of former Commandant David H. Berger’s Force Design 2030 plan. Force Design is now part of the Marine Corps. It is time ...