Building the Impact Force: Marine Corps Transformation in an Age of Chaos

For more than twenty years, the United States Marine Corps was associated with dusty forward operating bases, counterinsurgency, and crisis response on the margins of larger land wars. That world has vanished. In its place is a far more dangerous environment, where adversaries blur the line between peace and war, logistics are contested from the outset, and a single radio transmission can invite immediate attack. Building the Impact Force tells the story of how the Marines are reinventing t...