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Morgan Chalfant, Washington Free Beacon

The Marine Corps could undergo an overhaul at all levels over the next decade to prepare for future conflicts in which information warfare will play a critical role. …

A roughly 300-person operational planning team developed the plans in response to a order from Gen. Robert Neller, the Marine commandant, in January. “Maintaining the status quo is unacceptable. Failure to change the shape and form of the service will condemn it to irrelevance,” the brief reads. …

Thomas Donnelly, a defense and national security expert at the American Enterprise Institute … named Russia, China, and Iran when asked about emerging threats to American interests and cited worries about a “system collapse” confronting the American-led global order.

“I think the threats to the American international order has risen to a very dangerous level,” Donnelly said. “If the system fails in one place, then as a whole it will fail as a system.”

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